New position? - FEEDBACK NEEDED

[Jim Barrow]

This supports what I just posted.  You're able to immediately determine that you do not want a management position because you've already established that as a goal.  Or, more precisely, established that 'management' does not meet your goals, whatever they may be.

- Jim

From: linda_sims at vanguard.com
Gene Kim-Eng wrote on 04/23/2007 11:51:01 AM:

> I don't think it's a no-brainer at all.  The question asked by the
> OP's manager (what do you want to do?) is often the hardest
> question there is to answer.  Practical considerations aside, if
> a possible position is not what one *wants* to do, one's 
> chances for success and satisfaction in the position are already 
> handicapped.
> 
> Gene Kim-Eng
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James Barrow" <vrfour at verizon.net>
> 
> > This is a no-brainer.
> > 
> > Your current position is here:  (_)
> > Becoming a supervisor would put you here:  (-)
> > 
> > Take the position.  Learn XML.  Don't look back, and stop trying to 
talk
> > yourself out of it.

I agree with Gene. I always make it clear to anyone who hires me that I am 
not interested in, nor would I be happy in, a management position. I love 
to write, I love to find out how things work and how to push the limits of 
what they're capable of. I'd be miserable in a job that didn't let me 
"play with the toys" and, truly, I find that managing my personal projects 
and deadlines to be about as much as I want to handle. 

Management isn't a good choice for everyone; there are companies out there 
now which recognize this and provide a promotion ladder on the technical 
side that doesn't include moving into management.