Highly recommend this as well. And I encourage people to not get scared off by the "sales" aspect of the job. As the technical resource, you're almost never closing deals, cold calling, or any of the other salesy responsibilities. Your job is really just to help the potential customer solve a problem with your technology. You gather requirements about their problem, and have technical conversations to show how your product(s) can be a good fit.
You get to build demos, and learn new technologies and never have to be responsible for production.
The earning potential can be very high, especially if your team exceeds your sales quotas.
Look for jobs like solution architect, sales engineer, customer engineer, pre-sales engineer.
You get to build demos, and learn new technologies and never have to be responsible for production.
The earning potential can be very high, especially if your team exceeds your sales quotas.
Look for jobs like solution architect, sales engineer, customer engineer, pre-sales engineer.