Having done sales before, I can assure you that it's differently stressful rather than more stressful. Trying to sign a customer for a substantial booking is st

Having done sales before, I can assure you that it's differently stressful rather than more stressful. Trying to sign a customer for a substantial booking is stressful, but so is deploying a complex change that you can't roll back. There's hard things about every role. Engineers can also be axed at any time for performance. They're fortunate that most companies are bad at measuring that, but they're also subject to things like stack ranking at very bad companies (fire worst 10% every year) so it's certainly not better to be in eng rather than sales. Ultimately all roles have aspects of them that suck, so you need to find the one that sucks least for you.