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I have two goals that I'm working on in parallel: advance on the technical or management track at the company I work for and build two side-businesses to the point where my after-tax income from them exceed my day job. For me "long-term" is 5 years (or less): I want to be quit of the software industry as soon as I can be.

For the first goal I split time at the company I work for between engineering work (design, implementation, mentoring junior engineers, etc.) and building relationships with product, marketing, and engineering leadership.

The two side-businesses are boring and use technology, but unlike my day job where I work in machine learning (up and down that "stack", from data engineering through research and model development) technology isn't the focus. I spend time in the evening after my kids have gone to bed developing or sourcing the supporting technology and working on product ideas and marketing and sales efforts.