[trykondev]

I went through a potentially similar experience as you, where I was feeling a bit burned out on writing software. There were other things I wanted to pursue like writing fiction, but I didn't necessarily have the budget to focus on it full-time.

I transitioned into working in a field that still leverages my technical skills, but in a different way -- I conduct technical interviews. It's been a really healthy change for me in a number of ways -- in addition to getting some face-to-face communication with real human beings & improving my interviewing/interpersonal skills, it's also given me the chance to work remotely and pursue the other things that interest me. And I've found it to be a huge relief to have a job that is separate from the stress of maintaining a codebase or crafting software all day which I found to be pretty draining.

The company I work for in this space pays well ($100 USD per 90-minute interview). If this is the kind of thing you (or anyone else reading this) might be interested in, send me an email and I would be happy to talk further about it! My email address is in my profile.

[JamesBarney]

I'm surprised by the low rate for interview work. Interviews always wiped me out.

But I guess the interviewers get a lot of freedom and maybe get it's gets easier the more you do it.

[trykondev]

It was challenging at first but you are definitely right that once you do it consistently for (maybe a month or so), it becomes a lot less taxing.

And yes -- a big part of the appeal is definitely the flexibility in terms of hours & location. It's been such an improvement to my quality of life to find a fully remote job.

[pmoriarty]

Some other ideas along these lines:

technical recruiter, project manager, and jobs selling or teaching technology

Finding people in these fields who actually understand the technology they're dealing with is pretty rare and usually very appreciated by the people you wind up working with, so you'd have a big advantage.

[NotSammyHagar]

Tell me more about your job. Is that an hour interview plus half an hour to write it up? How many interviews do you get in a week? Suppose you did three a day 5 days a week, which would be $1350 a week. Not bad for a work from home job with that amount of time.

Edit $1500 a week, not 1350.

[trykondev]

Yep, that's correct -- 60 minute interview and 30 minute writeup summarizing & scoring the interview. There is actually a surprising amount of work in this space, at least at the company I'm working for -- I usually try to do a maximum of 10 interviews a week to leave time for my game development pursuits, but there are lots of other folks who do more than that & use it as a full time job.

The type of interviewing I'm involved in is mostly first-round technical screens -- the standard interview format is about 10-15 minutes discussing the candidate's prior work and the remainder of the time on a live coding exercise.

It's a lot of fun -- I always enjoyed solving & working on "interview-style" problems more than the actual enterprise software projects I'd build at work. So it's definitely been a game-changer to discover this field.