Ask HN: Those of you who left tech, where are you now?

I'm starting to realize that I'm a mediocre yet "smart" developer who might not be cut out for doing this long term. I find reading about software really interesting, built a number of my own apps, was able to pick up elixir professionally quite quickly and design some cool things at my last job. However, I can't for the life of me get into a place where interviewing seems natural at all and still after four years of experience struggle to get through medium leetcode problems.

I've had a taste of the "strategy" or "product" side of things and wonder if that's a better path to transition to, especially since I don't want to be a developer ten years down the road. The thing that's hit me the hardest is realizing I probably don't have the chops or mental energy to do my own startup. Just working at a startup during covid caused me to burn out and basically quit to maintain sanity.

For those of you who left tech but still make equivalent income either on the strategy, ops side etc I'm curious of how you came to make your transition and how your path changed soon thereafter.

Thanks