I'm in sales and I like my job when I get to work with customers, but just like MUD mentioned the last year has been tough because of the increase in admin responsibilities. I hate Salesforce.
I've thought about retiring, but the last 2 years have been the best of my life.

Mud's underlined sentence above hit me, as I feel the exact same most days. I'm a fisheries management biologist, consulting for private ponds/lakes through a university in Arkansas for the whole state. The fun days are in the field, shocking fish, investigating fish kills, prescribing weed management plans, surveying build sites, designing stocking and management plans with clients. Most days are spent writing reports, emails, lectures, staring at a monitor with little to no observable physical output to see at the end of the day. I don't get much satisfaction from my digital output, though I understand/appreciate the importance of it. Definitely get to meet cool clients. Everything from just scraping by to high end wealth. Business owners and professionals within the fishing industry are especially fun as we usually just end up talking fishing stuff for an hour on top of the visit. It's like any gig, there's un-fun bits to it but overall it's a cool profession. Fish shocking days photo'd below are the best:

I honestly don’t see the aversion to salesforce. Sales seem to view it as big brother- but it’s not and shouldn’t be viewed that way. It’s a great place to keep all the data accessible to everyone within a company. Everyone wants to work in a silo but it just doesn’t work that way.