Yeah. These are all things that happened to me as an IC over the last 13 years. I'm jaded.
The best thing you can do, if you find yourself replacing whole teams of people due to your experience , is to start your own company or be the CTO of a company.
That sucks though, it's high risk, low reward. The safer bet is to just be a manager.
> to start your own company or be the CTO of a company.
In which case you’d be a manager. There’s no getting around the value multiplier of making other people more valuable. Even traders and movie stars have a ceiling as compared to the people that run hedge funds and movie studios.
The best thing you can do, if you find yourself replacing whole teams of people due to your experience , is to start your own company or be the CTO of a company.
That sucks though, it's high risk, low reward. The safer bet is to just be a manager.