[shmat]

I wish you luck. There's a lot of good advice in this thread, but if I were talking to my younger self I would say DON"T DO IT!!!!! I became a manager the first time when I was 28 and I was very excited about the opportunity. I found very quickly that I hated it. If you really love coding and solving problems, you will never find being a manager satisfying even if your team is successful. So I transitioned back to developer. Fast forward 12 years at a different company, and I was talked into being a manager (bad sign) again. I told myself that I'd approach it differently and focus on being a mentor, etc. Same exact result. I hated it, and transitioned back. You have to know yourself and what you find rewarding. Unfortunately, there are a lot of terrible managers in technical fields, and I've always thought it's because most of those people in their heart of hearts don't want to be managers.

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Definitely an important lesson. In the beginning when I moved to management, it was hard for me to detach myself from the technical side. I would even take on side projects that only I worked on so I wouldn't slow the other devs down in a team project because my availability was all over the place. I soon realized that I wasn't doing my job by focusing on development.