My wife was listening in on one of my work calls today. It was a collab session to debug a security issue with my team lead.

She has told me many times before how weird it is for her to listen to my "work voice", because it's so different than my regular day-to-day. I'm a really chill, "go with the flow" kind of person. But she says that in work mode, I'm more assertive, and have like an air of authority and confidence that I don't normally show.

She told me today that I really should be in a leadership position. I've been Team Lead before in a previous job. I enjoy it well enough, and have told my manager that I'd be happy to do it again. But, today was a very collaboration-heavy day, and to be honest, I don't really enjoy these days very much. Don't get me wrong. I get stuff done working with others, and I'm not anti-social, or anything like that. But most of the time, I'd really just rather just work on my own crap on my own. And I know from experience that a Technical Lead, while still a developer who spends plenty of time coding, still has to spend a lot of other time doing other things, like supporting the junior devs, and planning, etc. And mostly, I just want to write some code.