"rbowman" wrote in message
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On 06/12/2021 03:30 PM, Tekkie� wrote:
Good analogy. On second thought some do rise to mismanagement. Dilbert
bears a
mention with the pointy haired boss.

I'm reading a novel by Francis Porretto in which the protagonist asks his
boss 'How badly to I have to screw up a project to never get promoted to
management?'

I know the feeling. Theoretically I am a manager but everyone I'm supposed
to manage has been diverted to another project and I'm happy as a clam
doing actual programming.

Exactly. I would much rather *do* something (produce something) than watch
and manage other people doing it. And any job which involves spending a
large part of each day in meetings with other people would be my idea of
hell: my definition of a meeting is a means of getting more work dumped on
me after the meeting than I had before it, but then "imprisoning" me in the
meeting room while everyone else waffles on, preventing me from actually
working on that increased workload.

I'm very much a details person: I would rather get on and make *something*
(even if that something is the wrong thing) than spend all day discussing
what the right thing is to do without actually making anything (even the
wrong thing). I find it very hard to stand back and take an overall
"helicopter view", mainly because doing so bores me rigid: I'm itching to
get into the details.