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So, it is settled, I will change positions internally in my company, and be closer again to software development. Embedded world in automotive is just moving (ha!) a lot at the moment with electrification of vehicles, autonomous driving, AI, connectivity, ..., plenty of interesting topics, so I am a bit excited to join development again. My company is big enough that this change is like changing companies - new workplace, new colleagues, new products, a complete different environment. I have been that "clueless" technical manager in the last decade you guys bitch about in some lounge posts from time to time - I chose to step back from this career, which likely means a dead stop in any kind of career in my company, because you cannot recover from this - but then, what is exactly career ? As a tech and teamwork lover, the management spheres were too far away from reality, and too dehumanizing. In the past, I really believed that success could be achieved without 20% profit increase targets each year, without using people as the first resource to delocalize or get rid of when things do not run as expected, without talking "empathy, entrepreneurship, .." and not believing a single word of it... I was sadly wrong : in the end, money talks, always. If I cannot change the world, let's change at least mine :-)
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So, it is settled, I will change positions internally in my company, and be closer again to software development. Embedded world in automotive is just moving (ha!) a lot at the moment with electrification of vehicles, autonomous driving, AI, connectivity, ..., plenty of interesting topics, so I am a bit excited to join development again. My company is big enough that this change is like changing companies - new workplace, new colleagues, new products, a complete different environment. I have been that "clueless" technical manager in the last decade you guys bitch about in some lounge posts from time to time - I chose to step back from this career, which likely means a dead stop in any kind of career in my company, because you cannot recover from this - but then, what is exactly career ? As a tech and teamwork lover, the management spheres were too far away from reality, and too dehumanizing. In the past, I really believed that success could be achieved without 20% profit increase targets each year, without using people as the first resource to delocalize or get rid of when things do not run as expected, without talking "empathy, entrepreneurship, .." and not believing a single word of it... I was sadly wrong : in the end, money talks, always. If I cannot change the world, let's change at least mine :-)
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Rage wrote:
Embedded world in automotive
Specific car company, or supplier? If a specific car company, would you care to name them? You know where this is going... :-D
dandy72 wrote:
care to name them?
I'll gently pass on this one :-D
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It is a good change. I have done this at least once in my life and my 'career' didn't suffer because of it. I think it turned out better for it.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
Thanks !:thumbsup:
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If you paid to do something you love at the same time are getting paid enough (i.e., what you really need) to do it then You Win.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
I suppose so !
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So, it is settled, I will change positions internally in my company, and be closer again to software development. Embedded world in automotive is just moving (ha!) a lot at the moment with electrification of vehicles, autonomous driving, AI, connectivity, ..., plenty of interesting topics, so I am a bit excited to join development again. My company is big enough that this change is like changing companies - new workplace, new colleagues, new products, a complete different environment. I have been that "clueless" technical manager in the last decade you guys bitch about in some lounge posts from time to time - I chose to step back from this career, which likely means a dead stop in any kind of career in my company, because you cannot recover from this - but then, what is exactly career ? As a tech and teamwork lover, the management spheres were too far away from reality, and too dehumanizing. In the past, I really believed that success could be achieved without 20% profit increase targets each year, without using people as the first resource to delocalize or get rid of when things do not run as expected, without talking "empathy, entrepreneurship, .." and not believing a single word of it... I was sadly wrong : in the end, money talks, always. If I cannot change the world, let's change at least mine :-)
Congratulations! If you tried that at my company, it would be rather interesting. We have a habit of taking perfectly good engineers and turning them into utterly wretched managers through surgery: they remove your brain, your spine, and if you're male, your *cough* two best friends *cough*. If you were smart enough to save all of these on your original ascension to the vaunted halls of manager-hood, the restoration shouldn't be too horrible.
Software Zen:
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Congratulations! If you tried that at my company, it would be rather interesting. We have a habit of taking perfectly good engineers and turning them into utterly wretched managers through surgery: they remove your brain, your spine, and if you're male, your *cough* two best friends *cough*. If you were smart enough to save all of these on your original ascension to the vaunted halls of manager-hood, the restoration shouldn't be too horrible.
Software Zen:
delete this;Gary Wheeler wrote:
two best friends
Not everything is back yet[^], but I will try and man up. :laugh: My company is a real good one, and I had only good managers so far, so it is not a matter of skills, it is a matter of philosophy - To me, increasing profit by two figures percentage every year is physically impossible, and I cannot stand behind things I do not believe in, let alone talk others into believing them.
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So, it is settled, I will change positions internally in my company, and be closer again to software development. Embedded world in automotive is just moving (ha!) a lot at the moment with electrification of vehicles, autonomous driving, AI, connectivity, ..., plenty of interesting topics, so I am a bit excited to join development again. My company is big enough that this change is like changing companies - new workplace, new colleagues, new products, a complete different environment. I have been that "clueless" technical manager in the last decade you guys bitch about in some lounge posts from time to time - I chose to step back from this career, which likely means a dead stop in any kind of career in my company, because you cannot recover from this - but then, what is exactly career ? As a tech and teamwork lover, the management spheres were too far away from reality, and too dehumanizing. In the past, I really believed that success could be achieved without 20% profit increase targets each year, without using people as the first resource to delocalize or get rid of when things do not run as expected, without talking "empathy, entrepreneurship, .." and not believing a single word of it... I was sadly wrong : in the end, money talks, always. If I cannot change the world, let's change at least mine :-)
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You get used to it after some time, so no medication. But everything is velcroed to my desk, pretty much the anti-world of the ISS :-D
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You get used to it after some time, so no medication. But everything is velcroed to my desk, pretty much the anti-world of the ISS :-D
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dandy72 wrote:
care to name them?
I'll gently pass on this one :-D
You have left enough clues over the years to make a qualified guess possible. :) (I have two actually, but they're geographically quite close to each other)
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello