I love development. I like designing the algorithms, coding them, testing, debugging, even documenting. Project planning is great with me, like being a team l

I love development. I like designing the algorithms, coding them, testing, debugging, even documenting. Project planning is great with me, like being a team leader. I do not enjoy tedious meetings. Tedious being anything over 30 mins where my GAD (give a Darn) is broken. Writing papers justifying why we need more people, why something cannot be done etc. As for OP, I think if schools would teach debugging and code structure better, then he might have stayed with it. Surprisingly writing a parser taught me a lot about both. To OPs current situation, why can you not be the SW guy in your group? I have met enough non tech professionals to know almost any group would love to have someone to do small projects. Typically they must have some domain knowledge, which after 15 years you should. Question is, can you percieve any projects?