Title: Hey HN, long time lurker, hoping this awesome community can help me (and others like me) figure out the next step in my (thier) career(s).<p>I spent 2006-2012 on three self funded ventures that didn&#x27;t come to fruition, which left me tapped for spending ability, several maxed credit cards, and a job in Seattle thats not advancing me career-wise.<p>I am starting to feel a slip in my creativity, which I think is attributed to some drop in self confidence &#x2F; depression &#x2F; anxiety that&#x27;s been creeping up.<p>I&#x27;m in love with business strategy, project ideas &#x2F; planning, budgeting, and architecting.  I love prototyping, but that leaves me with a gap in mastery of any specific technology.<p>I&#x27;m starting to panic that I&#x27;m running out of time to &quot;get my shit together.&quot;<p>I have a potential opportunity to work with an incubator vetting applicant&#x27;s technology.  I&#x27;d take that job in a heartbeat, but they are not running yet (probably 1yr+ away)<p>I would love to take my experience in business, engineering, and product &#x2F; project management, and find a position where I am helping a growing company with a full pipeline of projects get focused and prioritized.<p>I&#x27;m concerned that as I get older it&#x27;s harder to find an engineering job.  I get bored where it&#x27;s building and fixing things all day.  Management-wise I struggle with giving critical feedback to people as their &quot;boss&quot;.<p>My uncle used to be a manufacturing &#x2F; process consultant.  He had a constant flow of new challenges and companies to work with. This sounds highly interesting to me when applied to tech, but I have no idea where to start.<p>So, I&#x27;m interested to see the discussion about what those of us who are life long hackers (with a ton of varied experiences) can do besides keep writing code or moving into people management.  And some advice on how to start down such a path.<p>Thoughts?
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