Over the years I’ve found myself more and more interested in designing systems than paying for existing system design mistakes - I want to help people learn to

Over the years I’ve found myself more and more interested in designing systems than paying for existing system design mistakes - I want to help people learn to avoid them. (Coming at this from software engineer). To me, it’s clear that designing systems is the way to maximum ongoing profit. Yet no-one I’ve come across in the world of business (still clinging on to hope) seems interested in an intentional, on-going system design process - especially when it comes to the software part, and they’re often not very good at the non-software part either. I find myself a little bit stuck doing hands-on software engineering for companies who’ve gotten themselves into a system design hole. Companies are willing to throw tremendous resources at paying for system design mistakes, but not at avoiding them, or correcting them. I don’t really know how to profitably find my way upward, except for becoming a manager or a consultant.