The big issue in my career is that I'm a deeply technical engineer, but I also love to talk to customers and travel for work. I started as a pure engineer but found that I was missing external contacts so I switched to PM. Then I found that the PM job was too bullshit, not enough engineery. At the end of the day you mainly document things, but don't really do anything. Then I went back on a full time.engineer role.which was again too deep in the weed and I was missing the interaction with end users. At this point I'm looking for my next job and I'm applying for both PMs and engineering jobs. I looked also at solution engineering jobs, or field engineering, but most of the time it seems that those engineers are lowballled and get no respect from the org. What are your advices in this situation? What should I go for ?
You sound like you'd be a perfect Solutions Architect. SAs travel around with the business development teams as the technical expert. They guide third party partners through API integrations, or with solutions for technical products such as AWS. They maintain relationships with technical leaders at partner companies and need to be socially adept. Amazon has many such opportunities.
Seriously, you should check out tripadvisor. Not the best company for "tc". But you'll travel just bevause we have offices everywhere (to the point where it's annoying).
I would rather not interface customers, have piece of mind and quietly code in my cube.
Then why respond to the question? 😂
Forward Deployed Engineer @ Palantir.
Consulting jobs for travel