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1. Need

The company I work for needed a manager for a new team. I identified the need for the team and proposed it to my boss so I ended up leading too.

2. Boredom

We had switched to several technologies that I was not particularly interested in working with so I needed to find something else to do. I still work on personal projects in my free time but I don't use any of the technology we do at work. I was actually considering leaving the company until the opportunity presented itself.

Overall I _think_ I like the transition. Some days are better than others :)

I spend a large portion of my time just helping my team with blockers, hashing out problems, etc. This means I need to be online and available for a large portion of my day where before I could be offline and focus on the task at hand.