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by waqasx 1899 days ago
I cant believe this hasnt been said yet:

Every job can be converted into this esp in any sort of managerial role, the strategy to do this has only 3 basic steps:

# 1 - Hire a great team under you.

If you have one person, two person, or more working under you, make sure they know what to do and make sure they understand your expectations.

# 2 - Delegate your work.

Try to get rid of as much work as possible. There will be surprisingly little you have to do personally if you have done step 1 right. People who work under you wont even mind delegation+trust if you dont get in their way and micromanage. Just give them work and forget about it.

# 3 - Relax

Now you can chill while other people do your work for you. Keep tuning this system until you have created a well oiled machine under you that runs with minimal manual supervision. You now have time to focus on more important things.

6 comments

"Hire a great team" .."Delegate your work"..These are the opposite of easy stuff which OP wants to do. Team building and managing is one of THE hardest things to do. Won't work for OP who is looking for easy stuff. Source: I have built a team of 20+ people and keeping it functioning well is one of the hardest things for me.
Hiring and managing a team is extremely hard, and can get very stressful. The care and nurturing of organizations, while keeping them productive and resilient to constantly changing environments, is probably the hardest job.
Agreed. This comment sounds like it came from either someone who has never been in a management role before or someone who is on track to be the boss everyone hates because they do none of the work but take all of the prestige.

Anyone who thinks hiring, managing, and retaining good talent is easy has never done it before. Either that, or they somehow have high enough budgets to hire people at $500K/yr and pay them to ignore the bad boss in exchange for fat paychecks.

A manager not doing their job is terrible for the team. It might work for a year but then all the capable devs are going to leave.
Yo, this is actually really hard
OP said no management positions:

> Only tech, I do not want to manage people.

Wasn't there a story a few years back where an engineer (from a high cost country) outsourced his work to another engineer (from a low cost country)?
Reminded me of this Onion report from a decade ago: https://youtu.be/rYaZ57Bn4pQ
What if the people under you or those contacted about task delegation now want to take your job?