I'm in the back half of my career, the first half spent in sales-related roles and Sales/CS leadership. I was always a technical person, but never a developer or engineer. Then AI hit, I leaned in hard, knowing that this was a race to learn before other people figured things out. Long story short, AI lowered the developer/engineer bar, and I'm now head of AI Innovation at my company and loving it. Who knows where this leads, but I'm loving getting paid to play with AI and build Innovation plays as my full-time job.
Since I haven't been able to meet my work goals very well in the last few quarters, I now plan to approach them more systematically and not push myself too hard on work goals, as that ultimately led to problems that made my plan less sustainable.