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The Beginning Of The End
How politeness, deference, and loyalty can be the death knell of your software engineering career.
As you move carefully up the ranks on the board of the Grand Game of Software Engineering it’s a constant struggle to not only keep in mind your end goal, but also to fend off the nefarious and often subtle attacks of the opposing pieces on the board.
For example, I’ve written previously about how avoiding promotions can radically save your life as an advancing progressive engineer.
This can occur when you either inadvertently take on more managerial responsibility through not noticing how many meetings you’re attending and how far fewer lines of code you’re actually writing or when you feel that you somehow should be taking on more responsibility as it’s just the way things are in the Grand Game.
This, of course, is very much not the case.
Let’s take a look at another way that bait and switch, distraction tactics, and HR busywork can also cause immense inconvenience to your game plan.
Movin’ On Up
It’s one of the key goals of every truly progressive software engineer to remain fully technical and not inadvertently be drawn over the dreadful event horizon of management and inevitably into the black hole therein.
