Desk Free Technology Career Path?

nickjohnson wonders: "I realize that in business there exist many career paths out of software engineering, but in the corporate world, most of those career paths still involve sitting in front of a computer or sitting at meetings or sitting and talking on the phone a significant part of the time. I'm sure there's a number of people out there with neck and wrist pain, or aging bodies hard to keep in shape -- what career paths have you or are you considering that are interesting and rewarding for techie engineering types that do not involve so much sitting still?" "I'm reaching out to the Slashdot community for advice on a career change for myself, a veteran software engineer who, for physical reasons, does not want to work sitting in front of a computer anymore. Actually, I really don't want to spend many more years sitting still in front of *anything* anymore. I need to move around more, and maintain a more upright position throughout the day. Short of becoming a yoga teacher or a dance teacher or I don't know a skydiving instructor, what else is out there for a techie like me?

* interesting problems to solve
* opportunities for discovery and success
* financially lucrative
* more invigorating (not tiring) than sitting still all day"

Comments

Teach

[Anm]

everyone has some knowledge worth imparting. And if you find the right audience, it can be incredibly rewarding.

Construction

[BortQ]

My cousin's a civil engineer and she gets to go out to work-sites and stuff like that. There's certainly some desk-work that goes along with it, but it's not 100% of the time.

There's certainly challenging problems in building things (especially really big things =), so maybe it's something you should consider.