ASK HN: I'm lost -- need direction
stakent: From my point of view (a dozen or so years of work wearing many hats, no marketing experience):Look at your commitments towards you employer, formal and informal ones. If your
commitments permit: start on side something noncompeting with your employer. If it works, then its the Decision time.Do not burn bridges.To gain some marketing experience, I've started side project which consists of
almost no coding and all marketing in very competitive niche. I'm learning every
day and, as bonus, have possibility that project will work.