[nicbou]

This happens to me all the time. I am a software engineer, but I have my own (mostly unrelated business) that already fills my schedule and my coffers.

I just say no. I give my friends as much advice as I can, but I won't do any other work. At some point, you get diminishing returns on the extra work you do. Life is short and you can't spend all of it getting richer.

[liammoore]

If you are someone who gets a lot of projects coming your way, wouldn’t you rather help people get their ideas over the line and maybe get some additional credibility and networking from it? Maybe it means more to me as I’m a little earlier in my career, but I feel like I don’t want to pass up on these opportunities.

I’m looking for ways that I can take a management role on projects and have other devs do most of the heavy coding - is this something you have tried?