I am in similar position. I recently turned 40 and I’m a Development Manager but the role is moving me away from all the technical stuff I really like. I work i

I am in similar position. I recently turned 40 and I’m a Development Manager but the role is moving me away from all the technical stuff I really like. I work in a classical industry position so no interesting FAANG Stuff only boring (but important) business software to keep up and running with my team. The problem is that i originally did a PhD in Computer Science (Machine Learning / NLP) in 2010 and had papers at SIGKDD, ECML etc. So this business software thing is terrible boring for me but in Germany it was reallly hard to find interesting - well paying positions - at that time in this field. And now i have no idea what to do next, because i fear that all my experience as a “Development Manager“ will not be accounted for if I apply somewhere in a more deep technical role like FAANG.