Perhaps because my role has become much busier recently that I am thinking about this more often...
I started off by building web sites. Really enjoyed it, especially learning all those "tricks" to make things load properly in all the various browsers.
Then it got more "administrative" as I discovered I had to write documentation (yikes!).
Then my boss left, and I took over his role. Now I find myself mired in meetings and administrative work almost on a daily basis.
I miss being able to code, and missed the times when my biggest issue was figuring out how to call the DOM properly in Javascript.
I feel like I'm really out of touch with all the technical side of things now, because I have so little opportunity to do that sorta stuff, and have to hand off all the coding to my colleagues.
I want to emphasise that I am very grateful to God that I have a job, and generally speaking, a very good one.
But, probably because I am a "details" kinda guy, I like the little details in life. I like it when I reload the page and can see that the code has worked, or when I do a database query and the result comes back successfully.
I feel I am at a crossroads in life ... and that I have to choose to go either tech or management. I love tech, but think that if I continue in this role, it will have to be management, simply because it's that kind of role.
I have a steady job, I'm not complaining!
But, sometimes I'd miss those little details, so I'm just sayin'...
Pay is good though. Just never knew what I wanted to do realistically (all my grade school/high school dreams were "Actor" or "director"... though I think deep down I knew it'd never happen, just thought if I kept saying it enough it'd happen. I'm pretty stubborn and the more people said it'll never happen the more stubborn I was about it when it came to career days). So when I did need a real job, I was really quite aimless. Have money saved up for school but have no interest in anything really aside from film and that is a money sink and nothing more. So... I used to hate it. I'm too smart for it... but I've accepted it now and it's not so bad. Won't get a better job without college and I don't know anything that would interest me enough to make the effort so... not complaining... Plus I have so much saved up now I can just buy my own house and do stuff I wanted to do but never did cause I wanted to save the money. Like sky diving ^_^ I'm working to get my AFF license now. It's pretty expensive but it is the most amazing thing I've ever done in my life. I just wish there was a closer drop zone cause I have to drive two hours away. If it was closer, I swear I'd be out there every single day jumping. My goal in life is to go 
