r/financialindependence • u/fidgit86 • Aug 13 '21

What do you do that you earn six figures?

It seems like a lot of people make a lot of money and it seems like I’m missing out on something. So those of you that do, whats your occupation that pays so well?

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u/AssaultLemming Aug 13 '21

Yeeesss somewhere up there on the clouds are managers of some kind, but they mostly just issue vague proclamations and send around emails about "productivity" and "values" and once a year about "share price".

Managers don't interface though, I mean account managers deal with clients and executive managers set strategy (make money, dont get sued or fined, oh is that the time? Get me on my cell at the golf course if you need me) but everyone below executive manager is in an Agile role now in my company, either project sponsor, product owner, scrum master or squad member.

That is except for the customer facing side of the business who have to sell stuff and run call centres or whatever, they still have regular managers I guess. Thank fuck I'm out of that though.

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u/Corm Aug 13 '21

Well by "set goals" I mean literally deciding what features we're going to build. Then we devs hash out the tickets. But deciding on the features is pretty important.

For interfacing with other teams, at least in my current job that's a big part of it since we develop internal software. But at my last gig that mostly meant working with the CTO and talking to the business team on client needs for feature priority.

For the most part managers have been pretty valuable in my experience. I just wish it was easier to hop teams if you got a bad one.

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u/JeffonFIRE 29d ago

I'm that former dev turned manager. In addition to having about 15 direct reports, I oversee front end costing, work out feature prioritization with the business team, map out resource allocations and release level planning (what features are in/out). Plus I have feature teams working under me (with technical scrum leaders), as well as defect repair teams. And I'm still involved in some of the technical discussions that go on.

Yeah, it's busy, but that what keeps it fun and exciting.

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u/AssaultLemming 29d ago

You have just described a product owners job.