I recently transitioned to architect from lead engineer and it’s been very jarring. My day to day went from leading a few meetings here and there and smashing hard bugs to near constant meetings with people higher and higher up the food chain (just yesterday I was presenting to the president of our parent company). Where as 3 months ago I would say “sure, I can do that” and then fire up vim and go to town. Now I’m fighting with sr. Directors and asking them “What is this in service of?” And I do very little coding outside of producing proof of concept work. I do like it but it’s just entirely different work from what I’ve been doing the past 8 or so years.