About five years into my career, I pivoted into a consulting position at a tech company. Still was coding often but the role was more about instructing and tutoring customers on best practices, methodologies, and newer tech like containers. Did that for a few years. Then a few months ago I realized that, while I enjoy coding, I was more passionate about the human interaction and teaching. Now soon I'll be starting a sales engineer role selling, and teaching, a cool product and making more money than I would have as a developer.