I work for a company that makes instrumentation. It's one of those "okay, now what am I going to do with a physics degree" kinds of things, but it suits me well. And I've bounced in and out of management. Today, there are engineers who are ahead of me in electronic design, but I'm good at figuring out the grand overview of how products work, and like to solve weird problems. Much of my programming is in the service of solving problems, rather than creating products.