Why do so many developers move to managerial positions as they get older?

why do so many developers move to managerial positions as they get older?

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because working is gay

That's a man

Many don't. At the place I work, about 60% choose to remain engineers (i.e. senior engineer -> staff engineer -> principal engineer).
The ones that do get into management do it because
1. it generally pays a bit better than pure engineering and has better job security, as it is relatively difficult to onboard new managers
2. they are not autistic and can sense when things are not going well on an interpersonal level
3. dealing with arcane shit like the specifics of Open ID Connect isn't as interesting as you get older
4. you realize that other disciplines do provide a metric assload of value. You literally wouldn't have a company if the enterprise sales team were incompetent.

That's generally how working in a boomer company is.
You move up the ladder.

It's easy to train an engineer but becoming a manager is something only a retard could do

Because the older you get, the less you want other people telling you what to do.

>dealing with arcane shit like the specifics of this completly open and readable standard that a billion people use
Low IQ makes me cringe, also you started from 1 when you should have started from 0.

i already feel dumber than 5 years ago, I'm 22
i going to be a drooling retard in my 30s, if i dont go into management i'll be fired

Not talented enough to become senior engineers. Much easier to be another drooling midwit manager who needs only to do what corporate wants him to do, say the right slogans, and game the right bullshit metrics. Fuck do I hate these people.

>You literally wouldn't have a company if the enterprise sales team were incompetent.
Enterprise sales teams have killed more companies than recessions. Prove me wrong

Because it is your duty as a man to lead and teach noobs to be less faggets. Also is easier, whicle making room for more assets.

Less work, more money.

Management is a racket. They pretend you need some number of years and specialized training to do it. You don't. You don't need an MBA to message a wagie's team lead on slack and ask them if the project is at risk if wagie takes a day off.

It's a scam to try to make people who got worthless degrees in making excel spreadsheets seem like contributing members of society.

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>Any Forums forgets soft skills
Not surprised

>soft skills
Massive cope term for people who don't have any actual skills.

Modern society is built around the premise that "management" is always super duper relevant and always more respectable than the people actually getting things done.

True, and ironically enough, the people with the best "soft skills" are usually also the ones with the most actual skill. When you have a healthy confidence in your skill, it becomes naturally easier to interact with people.

Likewise, the "smart autistic" meme is just as much cope. Autists aren't smart, they are just autistic.

OP is taking rust shilling to the next level

Microsoft's enterprise sales division is why Azure is growing at a faster rate than AWS and why an ever-increasing number of companies are ditching Slack for the putrid pile of shit that is Teams.

More money I guess?

In terms of importance for a business it goes
Sales guys > developers > janitors > the homeless guy outside threatening to stab you > managers

Managerial positions are fucking gay. Meetings all the time, busy work to please higher up people, always pretending to be busy and important, tracking "metrics" and breathing down developers throats. Fuck that. I'll take working like 2 hours a day with slightly less pay.
Ever since my team lead left and we got a new on its been fucking awful. All he does is make more busywork for us and now we're in 4x the meetings we were in previously eating up even more of our time so we can't fucking get shit done. Serioisly considering leaving its fucking asinine now.