I've been specializing in frontend for more than ten years, gaining full stack and backend experience for the last four or five, and I'm starting to think I might just be done. Not to harp on the AI discussion that gets posted on here all the time, but I do feel like our jobs have fundamentally shifted over the last 12 months to something I no longer enjoy; I don't want to be a pseudo manager of AI agents, I want to write code, and if there's no longer a need for that I can just do something else.

But I would like this community's help - looking at it from the ground up, what are fully unrelated jobs or industries where you feel like our skills would be most transferable? And I mean fully blue sky approach, things I might not have considered, not just coding in a different stack. I think I have above average computer skills and awareness of operating system details that would put me above a lot of other candidates from different backgrounds, so where could I go to leverage that (that is at least a little more future proof)? Or beyond computer at all, I feel like I have spent years building strong critical thinking skills and analytical reasoning; I just don't have a wide base of knowledge outside our industry to know where these would be best used.

For practical purposes, I can't look at anything that would require its own degree and four more years back to school, but there have got to be lots of certifications I could get quickly to start to open doors and prove my qualifications. I'm certainly expecting a pay cut, but I'm open to entry level jobs if it means a good career path.

So I am interested in your thoughts - if you were starting out today in any other field than webdev, where would you be looking?