Does anyone genuinely have manager(s) who give a shit about your career and growth and not simply the status of your JIRA ? :)
Would love to hear your thoughts :)

They don't care about you. The truth is simple, no one really *cares* about you or your career. You have to be the one that cares about your career and future, other people care about their careers and futures and the company cares about making money, that's the primary goal.

As long as you are willing to work at your current spot nothing will change. why should it? You're an adult and no one should be there standing next to you whispering: "go on, you can do better than this place!, you can earn more! you can do it! come on handsome! "

Literally no one will ever do that as their job description and honestly even the people that do tell you that have an agenda in the first place, including your family, though their agenda is positive for you too. But at a company? no... why should they? If you really want to move on then you will, and if you don't you don't. Managers are there to manage, they are not cheerleaders...

Lot o bitterness here. Which I get.

First company, I was told the whole point of managing someone was to give them the stuff you don't want to do. But that guy was incompetent.

I was kinda lucky tho. Same company, fast forward a bit and I change away from that project. One of the founders kinda took me under their wing, taught me loads, mentored me. Definitely cared.

I had one once. She recommended me for a new position in the company and signed off on an exception to a rule that would have required me to stay in my position for a year before I could apply for new ones at the same company. I'd only worked for her for about seven months. She saw I was overqualified for level 1 tech support and really hated doing it, and recommended me for a cloud DevOps job.

My managers in my new position haven't had the same regard for my career but the job is good enough that it was worth the trade.

Depends on point of view.

In my opinion work isn't a cozy place where you hang out and chill to make friends.

I'm saying this because I've had my fair deal of people who were wondering why I've treated them in their opinion at work rather harshly - but it's a fact. You're at work to work. Not to play games, to cuddle and to make best friends forever.

That's why you get paid.

That doesn't mean I as a manager don't care about a person or their career.

We can have a talk about it anytime, but don't make your work mine. Like I said many times here on DR, if you want to get help, need advice or wanna have a talk, get prepared, make a meeting and show an effort so I know you're serious.

Otherwise it's for me not only a waste of time, but it means that I'll have to do additional work cause the work I should have done during that time doesn't magically vanish, it's still there. Plus usually a fuckton of over stuff that just gets piled on.

... and if you leave me hanging, I'll most likely end up being very frustrated and then you become just a jira ticket so I can do my work for which I get paid.

Pretty simple equation.

I'm a manager who cares about my team. But I'm a coder too. My boss is who don't care about anything but productivity, so I'm always trying to be between him and my fellow devs.

I worked on a big bank before, and I know what you guys are going through. Just make a commitment to yourself: if you ever become a manager, don't be that kind of jerk ever.

Wish you all the best.