Alvaro Munevar Jr. credits middle-management jobs for his early retirement. The jobs gave him enough free time to maintain a side business to cover his retirement expenses. Senior management positions ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.

We may not have always called them “project managers,” but since the building of the pyramids, someone had to do the planning, budgeting and delegating responsibilities that laid the groundwork for ...