Is There a Difference Between a Manager and a Specialist?

I was viewing this topic as like, what happens when you're five years in to the field and you want to change directions or try something different? And so that's kind of where I went with it. How do you give advice to someone who kind of wants to move to the next step, but doesn't know what that direction should be? Do you, should you specialize? Should you become a manager? Well, I guess that's just going to be a personal question.