‘Management is a Total Career Restart’ –

Michael Lopp:

This sensation will appear at the end of the day when you ask, “What did I build today?” The answer will be a troubling, “Nothing”. The days of fixing ten bugs before noon are gone. You’re no longer going to spend the bus ride home working on code; you’re going to be thinking hard about how to say something important to someone who doesn’t want to hear it. There will be drama. And there be those precious seconds when there is no one in your office wanting… something.

When I was promoted from print designer to marketing director everything I knew changed. The above paragraph (yea Michael’s entire article) describes the learning curve of my life for the past 10 months so well it’s almost scary.