# [2018.12.02] Work-Life Balance

Being a team leader meant for me being more involved in projects and 
even in the lives of my team members. Not personal, of course, but 
still, I always tried to understand what was happening to them, what 
they're doing, interested in, what they needed, and how they could 
develop and apply their skills. And that was the most time-consuming 
thing, I guess. Now I can work in relative isolation, it's not my 
duty to oversee anyone anymore. And I've got more time for myself. 
Especially to understand where my career and life are going. Maybe I 
will study quantum computing, or applied category theory, who knows. 
Or at least I can enter a car driving school and receive a licence 
at last (one don't really need it in Moscow, but that will be a 
definite challenge for me and can prove useful if we move somewhere 
else).

I understand now that managing (in any sense, whether controlling 
like a traditional boss or just facilitating as a hipster-looking 
scrum master) is just a job, nothing more. And if your boss really 
wants you to manage that means a hard job and not being an adored 
king and lord of your subordinates with nothing to do. So I don't 
fancy being a manager much. I can do it, and I can do it well, but 
without pleasure. That's what I see now. Another question is whether 
I want to do Data Science in business at all. It still seems 
exciting for me, although I notice cracks multiplying across the 
surface of my confidence in the fact that Data Science is cool. 
Maybe it's not so cool after all. Only time will tell. Thank's God 
now I have enough of it:)