In technical pathways employees are typically given two choices:
1. Go down the individual contributer route
2. Or go down the engineering management pathway
Once you go down the engineering pathway, your work, becomes more and more distant from the creation process.
This can often be unsettling for engineering management and can lead to a lack of short to medium turn fulfillment, being given up for long-term fulfillment of enabling the team to deliver great product.
Finding even just the daily 15 minutes to tinker and wander is essential for the fulfillment of creatives.
To explore novel technologies and to some extent prove to to themselves if they still got that. spark.
