Ask HN: How to grow after 6 years of work?

I started my professional career more than 6 years ago. I started at a small company (less than 10 people). We were mainly a mobile development shop. I was known as 'polyglot guy' and 'Moving MSDN' working with the various technologies (C++, C#, Python, Java) on various platforms (Symbian, Windows CE, Windows, Java ME).<p>Then the company met a lot of management and financial problems. The manager made a lot of mistakes and later closed the company. This was very hard for me considering that I'm responsible for my mom &#38; younger sisters after my father died. I worked there for 1.5 years.<p>Then I moved to another small company, working on ASP.net. I was able to learn it very fast &#38; become productive with it, performing very well at the beginning &#38; used my good points (learning fast &#38; using various technologies well) but I met some problems when I was responsible for a whole project for the first time. We ran very late &#38; the quality was very low. Adding to this that the company was really bad when it comes to collecting their money, it was financially unstable. I had to leave after 1.5 years, though I liked this company very much.<p>For the next 1.5 years I worked in 3 small companies, 6 months in each one. This was really a horrible period of my life. We were always overloaded with work, project scope was rapidly increasing with the same cost. We were working for 16 hours a day. We were treated badly. Everything I tried to do was not enough to save any company.<p>I didn't try to fight till the last possible moment. I had enough of small failing companies. I was convinced that to create a successful software project I should focus on management, not the technical side<p>I went to work in a large software company, not as a senior programmer (as I used to be) but outsourced to another big company as a technical project manager. I accepted this position for 3 reasons<p><pre><code> 1. It is financially stable 2. To enhance my communication &#38; management skills 3. This was the only way to grow </code></pre> Contrary to my previous positions, I had manage many small interdependent tasks. I wasn't good at doing this. I slipped the deadline most of the time. I have to ask everyone at each step multiple times to do anything. All the time. I'm always blamed because I'm responsible. What makes me angry is that it's late because of somebody else. The only parts that went well were the parts that I made myself, or any tool that I made to automate a manual process. I'm much slower than any other colleage in my team &#38; the whole company, even people who are much younger than me<p>After sometime I knew that I'm not good at this. I asked my mother company to return to their HQ and work on a more technical position, but they said there isn't a vacant place for me. Later I asked for a communication skills many times, which I got finally.<p>I don't know how to grow in my career. I don't want to work on management, but I alsp want to feel that my work is valuable &#38; affecting the company positively. Here in Egypt the only way to grow is to go the management path.<p>I also want to work with Python. All the companies here either use C#, Java, C++ or PHP.