My experience is many Engineers make great Management People if they have the right people skills. "Big Picture" People, who hope to be "Big Money" People, but there are exceptions.
A very good Engineer who worked with me on several projects, (The Hydrogen Bus project), ECOBOOST, and the different Ford GT race car projects) was assumed to be a Senior Engineer at some point in the "normal vehicles" but went into Battery Research.
He, now, has 55 other Engineers working for him and probably is the smartest one in the group (as he was working on the program from the first day of the program).
So not all Engineers are "Paper Pushers" but good engineers can do both jobs well.
Tom V.
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"Engineers do stuff for reasons" Tom Vaught
Despite small distractions, there are those who will go Forward, Learning, Sharing Knowledge, Doing what they can to help others move forward.
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