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As a Staff and higher engineer you may be paid on the level of EM or Director. So switching the career track as an engineer beyond senior in most cases will not lead to salary increase.

Second argument is the assumption that switching to management opens the doors to much higher salary ceiling. In theory, yes, but realistically there is a strong competition for high level positions, few of us reach those places, and there is a big chance that one will simply stuck at a Director level position till retirement. Think if you enjoy management so much that you are ready to replace ability and joy of building things with more meetings, budget discussions, and politics.

Particularly in Europe with our taxes the benefits of slightly higher income may not have a sensible impact on your life.

Can you share any example of non-fiction literature with beauty and humanity? Thanks!

Have you tried autoimmune protocol diet? Anecdotally, but it may help.

I was lucky to have a few friends sharing my passion for metal. Anyway there were quite a lot of magazines about metal music. They really helped me to discover new styles, bands, and releases.

Oh how I enjoyed reading the reviews of the new albums back then! Some journalist were very talented in describing the music in tasty details and I was longing for the moment, when I buy and listen to the long awaited CD.

If you have motivation and time, find a niche, a project you are interested to dig into. Spend a month on learning about it, write some code. Then contact OSS contributors working in that area, show interest to learn and contribute. It may work. Good lick!

Did you roll out your own implementation of Outbox pattern? It is an important pattern to address potential data inconsistencies, but I did not see yet a good scalable implementation of it.

Apart from the patterns that are obviously good or bad by definition, most of the patterns and architecture decisions have their pros and cons, and the focus is on understanding, discussing those tradeoffs, and going with tradeoffs that a team / company prefers to deal with. Monolith vs. microservices, synchronous vs. asynchronous communications, small events vs. fat events - the list can go on, there are no silver bullets or clearly right choices.

What sources for learning do you use?

It is true for Copenhagen, but I wonder how it feels to families living in rural areas.

I think it is a matter of culture. I personally would prefer a straightforward approach, and I think many of my German colleagues, but I think my British colleagues would prefer that indirect way of communications.

In Germany we have probation period of 6 months that helps both sides to decide if they want to continue employment.

Can you please explain the causation between easiness of firing / hiring and high salaries?

My grandpa worked as an engineer at one of the freezer-warehouses where they also produced ice-cream. It was end of 80s - mid 90s in USSR. He brought a lot of it home, and my fridge was always filled with 1-3 sorts of it. Sweet childhood time :)