Originally Posted by irseg

WillyPete nailed it. My boss is one of the guys who used to be a programmer and got promoted to management because he happened to have the most seniority. He always complains that he never gets to do any cool projects anymore because how he's constantly going to meetings and delegating tasks.

One thing that's always fun in the real world is getting along with the sales/marketing people. If you've never had the pleasure before, let me explain how it goes down. Let's say you are to develop a shopping cart so your customers can place online orders. You slave in front of a computer for months, developing the best, fastest, most efficient, secure, feature-rich shopping cart in the history of the universe. You show it to a marketing guy, explaining how you overcame every obstacle and invented never-before-used techniques to made this work of genius on par with the theory of relativity. I can guarantee you his response will be "Hm. The blue you're using is about 2 shades off from the company logo. And can you make all the fonts a point bigger? Thanks, let me know when you have something decent enough for our customers to see."