[muzani]

Manager actually fits my personality better. I don't actually love programming in itself. I love systems, and humans are a much more interesting system than software. Org charts are as interesting than architecture.

I've switched back to programmer since, but it was fun for a period of time. I'm not sure why people are against it - you deal with way more tech as a technical manager, just that your experience with algorithms, etc is less useful. My experience with optimization and such applied more than ever though. A lot of programmers can't see the forest for the trees and a good manager helps with that.