What an amazing and inspiring journey. I absolutely love your transparency and your courage to be true to yourself. Thank you for sharing this journey, Anton, and I wish you the very best!
Fascinating to see the inner workings and the realization that stability is more important to you. Thank you for sharing!
I would push back on the lack of paywalled articles, how else could you possibly make any money writing? But stating your position differently you would have to be an absolute and utter superstar at writing to even approach a fraction of what you make as an EM / Director / VP.
Reading the article makes me think there are not enough roles for coaches without direct people management responsibility. Easy to see why a company would hire you to manage, but for some strange reason harder to have an IC engineering culture role. Maybe that’s not what you want, but curious if you considered doing consulting on EM culture for multiple companies as an in between a steady job and a startup.
What an amazing and inspiring journey. I absolutely love your transparency and your courage to be true to yourself. Thank you for sharing this journey, Anton, and I wish you the very best!
Thank you Gaurav, I appreciate it!
Congratulations 🙂. Sounds like it was a very successful career break!
Thanks Natasha! Yep, I would see it was quite successful :)
Appreciate the transparency, the shared journey and lessons, Anton! This was a great read! 🙏
Good luck in the next adventures!
Btw, I’d love to learn about the course creation. I’m thinking a lot about doing one but still haven’t started it. 😕
Thanks Petar!
It was a great experience. My top tips:
- Do some public speeches to see what resonates and get some experience in public English speaking.
- Write down fully the lessons, and ask for feedback from people you appreciate.
- Do the first cohort for a small amount (just so people will be serious) and collect feedback
That's at least what I tried :)
Great to read your thoughts process about your career and manager.dev. All the best in your new job and evangelist role!
Thank you Tom, I apprecaite it!
The Emerson quote fits perfectly, not everyone needs to be a founder, and that’s perfectly fine.
Strength is knowing what works for you.
Yep, and I couldn't have figured this out without taking some time off :)
Loved the point about writing for the long run, and the part on selling being harder than expected resonated. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks William! I hope it'll pay off :)
All the best, Anton!!
Thank you Grishma!
Thanks for sharing, mate!
I've been through similar ups and downs.
Humans are built for adventure! Keep the upward aim!
Lovely that you've decided to create life, which put you up for some tough decisions.
All the best!
Thank you Nikolay! I appreciate the support :)
Amazing journey Anton!
Thank you Kacper :)
Fascinating to see the inner workings and the realization that stability is more important to you. Thank you for sharing!
I would push back on the lack of paywalled articles, how else could you possibly make any money writing? But stating your position differently you would have to be an absolute and utter superstar at writing to even approach a fraction of what you make as an EM / Director / VP.
Reading the article makes me think there are not enough roles for coaches without direct people management responsibility. Easy to see why a company would hire you to manage, but for some strange reason harder to have an IC engineering culture role. Maybe that’s not what you want, but curious if you considered doing consulting on EM culture for multiple companies as an in between a steady job and a startup.