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There are plenty of tech roles where you don't have to be a superstar dev but can't still make out fine. Support is a good one - sneered at by many but actually
by growlist 7y ago
There are plenty of tech roles where you don't have to be a superstar dev but can't still make out fine. Support is a good one - sneered at by many but actually incredibly important and can be really fulfilling in the right role (granted low level support roles can be horrendous). So many users get shit support that if you really put them first they will come to love you. There are also roles that combine support with a bit of sys admin, service engineer type roles. Can be well paid on the contract side of things.
If you are or can learn to be creative and enthusiastic and personable, presales can be fun. In most presales roles the emphasis is on broad rather than deep skills, so that might suit you. For me presales was brilliant because it forced me to confront my fear of public speaking.
Finally I've met loads of successful people in my career that cheerfully admit they couldn't hack the technology side of things. Chin up!
- apohn 7y ago>I've met loads of successful people in my career that cheerfully admit they couldn't hack the technology side of things. Chin up! I think one nuance is that some people don't have the interest/skills to be a developer, but a number of people are decent developers but they get tired of the environment developers exist in. So when they say "I coudn't hack it as a developer" it wasn't so much about skills as much as personality.