[TuaAmin13]

As far as "merging" your jobs, this jumps out at me: +plant maintenance management & coordination (around 5 years). +software developer leveraging my plant maintenance experience.

I'm sure you've seen in 5+ years something in plant management that could probably be automated or had a pretty GUI put on top for pretty graphs. Is there anything you can think of that you could look in to developing that you could whitebox and sell to plants for management? Perhaps it was something during your software development experience that you thought would have been cool to pursue but The Man decided to take a different direction?

If you feel you've been out of the loop I'm sure you must have some contacts that would be more than happy to talk to you about their problems.

Initial barriers I see: I know some industries run certain vendor equipment so integrating or even convincing them to buy would be a bit difficult.

My other thought would be to go back to Engineering and use your software experience to make your life easier by automating your daily tasks so you can spend more energy doing something else (working for advancement, not working long weeks, or whatever other goals you have).

[four_months]

Thank you for taking the time and your thoughts.

Investing in a product is an interesting idea, but: 1) I'm out of the loop as you mentioned. 2) Bad taste from my little adventure. 3) Lack of motivation and 4) Lack the sales channels especially for enterprises.