I have worked at 4 Fortune 500 companies during my career. I’ve been with my current company for 3 years and I’ve been promoted twice. A year ago, I became a manager of 4 people. There are aspects of it that I enjoy, like people development. There are aspects of it that I don’t enjoy, like talking about the short comings of my employees during review times and how far I think that they can go with their careers at the company. Writing employee reviews was a draining experience for me. I also like constantly learning. I’m learning how to manage others right now and about corporate policies, but I have less time to learn about my specific discipline. I’m in a ‘hot’ niche of a ‘hot’ (IT) field right now. I wanted the experience of managing others and now I have had that experience (for one year). I’m debating on asking to move to an individual performer role again. While this seems acceptable in my company, I’m not sure how others at other companies would look at it on my resume. My ultimate goal is career marketability. I’m in my early 40’s. I’d like to be able to take what I know and go elsewhere, if circumstances required it, and find a job relatively easily. How might this hurt me, both at my current company and elsewhere in the future?