I transitioned to sales engineering last year. My software engineering opportunities had plateaued and I was not interested in management (I hate meetings). I c

I transitioned to sales engineering last year. My software engineering opportunities had plateaued and I was not interested in management (I hate meetings). I considered going back to consulting, but health insurance prices make that impossible. Part of the job is to make your quirky company appear to be operating smoothly from a customer point of view. You must give the customer warm fuzzy feelings about spending lots on your product. A prerequisite of this is to know and be able to communicate about your specific product domain very well. I get paid really well for my knowledge and it's very satisfying. The workload comes in waves and is very different from the grind of coding. If I do want to code, I can code for my company or the customer.