[sputknick]

You sound like a great candidate for a Product Manager position. ITs about the management of software systems, versus the code. You could be the person that prevents those "OOP messes" from happening in the first place. I've been out of college for 15 years, and I sometimes go years without writing code (I've recently gotten back into it, not because I'm required to, but because I want to). Its more about interfacing with executives, and users, and you have to deal with budgets, and conflicting requirements, and limited resources, so it's no walk in the park, but it is a different set of headaches from what you are dealing with now. Even if it's only for a few months/years, I think you are at the point in your career where it makes sense to diversify. When people ask why you are looking for a different role, you don't have to be negative, you can turn it into a positive: "I want to try something new, I want to get a higher level view of how software is created".