Originally posted by Kanye
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Can't stand PM work. Far, far too much stress for too little reward. And there seem to be plenty of struggling PMs who post regularly on here...
Architect? Interesting. I did pure architecture for a while up until 5 years ago, when I saw programmer jobs overtake it rate wise. Again, there were plenty of posts on here about it (in fact one guys sig. on here used to be "Programmer, getting paid more than than the project Architect...") And if you have hands-on, up-to-date programmer skills, it's always easy to find a new role, even when the market tanks. As an Architect (most are hands-off paper generators), businesses will just replace you with a permie who can "talk" and do nice PowerPoint slides (seen this so many times.)
So, my cv now states "Architect/Lead Developer" for all my roles for the last 5 years. I straddle both sides of the fence, but it seems to work for me.
So yes, learn some Architecture skills (then again, I'd expect all contractors I was interviewing to be able to do some architecture, even programmers...), but skip the heart-attack inducing PM work. Unless that's what you like doing (apparently some do. )
EDIT: Finger troubles.
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