I had actually gotten a Team Lead position at one point which I really enjoyed. It was assigning tickets to individual team members and helping them through them. I liked challenging them and seeing them grow. It was also nice to have time to tackle some of the more technical tickets that I didn't want to keep for myself. Then I got assigned to a couple other projects that required management I had to choose between keeping myself technical and providing those that worked under me the support they needed.

Had I remained just a Team Lead I probably would have enjoyed being in that position for quite some time. I had the opportunity to keep myself very technical through both working my own stuff and helping with the more difficult tickets I passed out. Once I lost that I knew I had to move and changed to our development department to code the fixes to the bugs I had previously been reporting. And now I'm at a different company getting experience with the administration side of things.

I'm not sure how moving up the chain is going to go at my new place since there are only two of us. There are formal job levels and I'm sure in time I'll move up that. For taking on new challenges, it seems like it's just going to be picking up projects and running with them. There is an Architect but I'm not sure if there will be need for more than one.