In executive roles, your expertise really is in management acumen a lot of the time. But as an individual contributor--or adjacent--once you're out of a technical space for a few years, it's increasingly hard to get back in even if you've casually kept a finger in.
Exactly, the only way to stay current is to keep doing something at least half time. The good thing it doesn't have to be the same as prev job. Just keep brain working and learning.
Agree and disagree. Yes, keep brain working and learning of course. But, if you've dropped out of some space, you're going to be pretty rusty about what is currently going on.
