Early stage startups & small companies can give both business and technical decision making/involvement in a single role. Marginally more job "risk" (more likely the real difference is lower pay, as layoffs happen everywhere). Upside potential is $huge$ but not likely. Fun seems to almost be guaranteed if you are working with good people.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:21 PM, R Aubrey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:r.aubrey.xyzzy@gmail.com">r.aubrey.xyzzy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>Hello, Bay Piggies.<br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div>I could use some career advice: where do people go when they hit middle age? I moved on from programming as a day job almost five years ago, into a technologist/architect/evangelist/product management/"whatever needs done for the business" kind of role reporting to the general manager. And while I am very glad to have learned a great deal about the business side of the software business, now I am sort of stuck in not having a clear place to advance to. Time to reboot the career, perhaps, but a good part of my problem is figuring out where to look for maximum overlap between what I've enjoyed doing and what positions are available. </div>
<div><br></div><div>If you really enjoy python programming and find side projects just to have an excuse to "prototype" something, but you also want to stay very close to the product management / business side of things because you've become convinced the software is just one part of a successful company: where do you go? Does everyone end up in management?</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Oh, and if my current employer has figured out this is me, new account notwithstanding, I'm Officially Very Happy and of course will use any advice just to better search internal postings, and be of more value here. :)</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div> ---</div><div>My husband, in common with a lot of people his age, is fifty. For how long are we to put up with these things?</div><div style="margin-left:400px"><div><div><div><div><div>
<div><div><div><div><div>-- Monty Python<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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