I’ve slowly been making my exit from pure tech for this exact reason. 2011 got hired as the “tech guy” for an artist that was winning Grammy’s left and right, b

I’ve slowly been making my exit from pure tech for this exact reason. 2011 got hired as the “tech guy” for an artist that was winning Grammy’s left and right, breaking world records for sales/ streams/ whatever, with an explicit part of the deal they let me sit in on marketing meetings to learn marketing. Was able to take “marketing” (really more social science), engineering and design to epidemiology, eventually wrap that together to work in politics, now back on infectious disease (COVID vaccinations). I find “tech skills” just being something in my toolbox to enable me to tackle infinitely more rewarding projects.