Almost 3 years into a position as a “technical engineer” that does both project management work and design work. During my career planning discussions I’ve been asked whether I want to go down the manager side of engineering or the technical/design side. Wondering what advice you have for making this decision. My understanding is that usually the management route offers more room for promotion and a higher pay ceiling, however I became an engineer for the technical stuff. Thoughts?

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Personally, I would go for technical PM because I like it

That depends on you like what you want to get into eventually, and what you find more interesting. Do you like design and building stuff? Or do you like managing projects, budget, scope, schedule, communicating and assigning work to the team?

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