[nodoodles]

You’re right - it is not the job for everybody. Perhaps the perverse incentives pushing folks into management for career growth have contributed to lot of human-job misalignment and to this narrative of almost superhuman effort. In what I’ve seen, EM culture tends to keep building that myth up.

Any job is sometimes frustrating, taxing, etc, no argument there either. Big plus one to computers winning on predictability, but humans get the point on autonomy (EM just needs to let go of the idea of telling anyone what they must do). But fundamentally, assuming the personality traits match (a lot is learnable), it is no rocket science, just people.

PS i reread earlier comment and see how it can come off. Not speaking as a engineer who doesn’t understand their manager’s job, but as someone who has been doing it for a decade and managed/mentored/coached number of newer EMs on the way :)