I'm in the same boat, with a pure technical background, I managed to tripled my salary in 2 years, the job has become much more interesting and without all the

I'm in the same boat, with a pure technical background, I managed to tripled my salary in 2 years, the job has become much more interesting and without all the political noise. The hardest bit so far is the sales / pricing strategy. For example, my biggest problematic this month is to figured out how much is it realistic to charge a F500 to support & maintain a custom build solution we've created: 5k/month, 10k/month, 15k/month (was sounding totally crazy to me until some people told me their company charge that kind of money for support)