Paths you may never have considered
Built from a recurring pattern in your activity: teaching, technology and independence.
You seem increasingly drawn to work that combines explaining, building and owning your own time. These four directions all sit at that intersection — some inside a company, some outside it.
Developer Advocate
You gravitate toward teaching, technology and independence. This role pays for all three at once.
Half educator, half engineer. Talks, writing, demos, and being the bridge between users and product.
Estimated $110k–$190k in most markets. Estimates, not guarantees.
- Explaining complex things simply
- Technical curiosity
- Comfort being visible
- Public speaking at scale
- Developer tooling depth
- Content production
Remote-heavy, travel optional, high autonomy, public profile grows over time.
Sits between teams; impact can be hard to measure in some companies.
Write a 700-word tutorial on something you learned this month and publish it.
Try before you SHFT →Technical Trainer
Teaching energises you and you already translate jargon for colleagues without being asked.
Designing and delivering training programmes inside companies or independently.
Estimated $80k–$150k employed; $1,500–$5,000 per day independently. Estimates only.
- Patience
- Structure
- Domain knowledge
- Curriculum design
- Facilitation
- Assessment
Predictable, people-heavy, strong independent option later.
Can plateau without a specialisation.
Run a 30-minute lunch-and-learn at work on any topic you know well.
Try before you SHFT →AI Implementation Specialist
You've watched more on applied AI than any other topic, and you like fixing operational problems.
Finding repetitive work inside organisations and rebuilding it with AI tooling.
Estimated $100k–$200k employed; consulting projects commonly $8k–$60k. Estimates only.
- Process instinct
- Tool fluency
- Stakeholder trust
- Automation platforms
- Evaluation and safety basics
- Scoping and pricing
Project-based, high demand, transferable across industries.
Fast-moving field — the tooling half-life is short.
Automate one recurring task in your current job this week and measure the time saved.
Try before you SHFT →Customer Education Lead
A quieter version of the same pattern — teaching, product, and measurable outcomes.
Building the help centre, courses and onboarding that make customers successful.
Estimated $85k–$160k. Estimates only.
- Writing
- Empathy
- Structure
- Instructional design
- Video production
- Analytics
Stable, remote-friendly, low travel.
Often under-resourced; requires internal advocacy.
Rewrite one confusing internal doc so a new starter could follow it.
Try before you SHFT →All compensation figures are estimates and ranges. They are never guarantees, and they vary by market, experience and employer.