The quest from software engineer to anther role (manager)

After worked in a small company in Pasadena for 4 years as software engineer, the question came to my mind. How could I break to the next level? Am I gonna stuck on this for the rest of my life? I believe for quite a few oversea Chinese, it is one common quest. I saw the same question asked on mitbbs again and again.

Once you have this question in your mind, you will not be settled on current position. I decided to step out of the comfortable zone, and recharge myself a little bit. The decision and investment varies - study overseas, go for MBA, immigrate, or study something new. MBA, my 3rd master degree? No. Since I wasn't quite sure what should I do, I studied during office hours and got a bunch of certificates - MCSE, MCAD, MCP, SJCP, SJWCD, CCNP, and PMP. I even got full reimbursement for all the expense.

After several weeks, the phone calls from recruiters such as MS and Google came in. Through these phone calls, I realized how difficult to switch to other roles such as program/project manager, product manager or dev manager in the next potential employer.

I decided to come back. There was a detour though. I ended up in Singapore for about one and half years. To summarize, it is 1.5 years waste of time in such tiny island.

Now I am back in Shanghai, and catch the opportunity in my current company. My suggestion to those who got the same question is - stick to one growing company with various functional departments, be humble and patient, but prepared and ready to shine, and look for opportunity from inside.

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