I work in political communications/education as the only techy person on a non-tech team. I have a background in front-end/UX + librarianship and instructional design. So while I do code when I make instructional materials + use my knowledge when I do things like our metrics/data analysis, it's not the majority of my job and none of my teammates can code at all (all but one of them break out in hives if they have to look at HTML).

Minuses: Nobody appreciates when you pull off something difficult/do something impressive.

Pluses: Coding is black magic to them so if I need more time I can say 'this will take me longer' and they're like 'alright'. That wouldn't fly in an actual developer job.

I also do research, outreach, and do things like give educational talks on civics + administrative law concepts. So I prefer to make a living with my research skills and public speaking/presentation abilities as opposed to my creative/coding ones.

I like to use my creative/coding skills as an extra: I'm a LOT better at my job than I would be without my tech background.