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The Fortune 500 company that I work for has parallel tracks. I actually moved from the management track to the technical track, and was promoted in the process.

I was probably an OK manager, but didn't feel that I would move up any further without doing some things that I didn't want to do, such as relocate.

Our managers don't actually spend a lot of their time managing people. Rather, they work on administrative and information processing tasks, and step in as small project managers.