Your are crazy. I taught myself rails part time using Lynda.com. I'm a sales and marketing manager, but love tech and wanted to build stuff.
The skills you pick up learning to code will be tremendous for managing others to build what you need.
Coding is hard to do well and takes years to get really good at it, and you will likely need to start at the bottom of the food chain to get the right coaching and support. I'd recommending learning enough code to be dangerous but get experts to help you do the hard stuff.
That said if this choice is about happiness, then go with your heart. Money shouldn't factor into that decision, it will come over time.
The skills you pick up learning to code will be tremendous for managing others to build what you need.
Coding is hard to do well and takes years to get really good at it, and you will likely need to start at the bottom of the food chain to get the right coaching and support. I'd recommending learning enough code to be dangerous but get experts to help you do the hard stuff.
That said if this choice is about happiness, then go with your heart. Money shouldn't factor into that decision, it will come over time.