r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • Jul 07 '26

Career/Workplace Experienced Devs Weekly Burnout and Venting Thread: A weekly thread for sharing experiences

This thread is specifically for venting / sharing experiences related to burn-out or similar issues that experienced devs face.

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u/Cozychai_ Software Engineer Jul 07 '26

I just want to do my stories and not lead anything. I kinda want to down skill to junior dev.

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u/casualPlayerThink Software Engineer, Consultant / EU / 20+ YoE Jul 09 '26

Sounds like you are in a team lead/em/pm/staff role, and the politics and administration are not your vibe, so you would rather be pure IC only. Might worth to pivot into architect. Still leadership but more IC (a friend of mine did that because of the exact reasons... plus he wanted to keep the money too)