Nah, not really. I just want to spend more time working on my own projects.
Same, either that or become a beach bum if my wife passes away too soon.
Was working on a PhD in CS focused on industrial cybersecurity, though current events involving the three letter agency that funded my research lead to me crashing out and now I’m trying to get into law school and do immigration law. Far too frail and pasty to buy a farm though
The problem with tech is that you aren’t usually doing the thing that made you want to go into tech. For me this was creating things and solving interesting problems. Most of my days are meetings, dealing with clueless people and having to deal with leadership and product team changes that ruin already completed work. Thankfully being at large tech companies has enabled me to hopefully retire in my early 40s. I can then continue with tech in a way that is meaningful to me while also spending a lot more time outside. The PNW is beautiful and I intend to see much more of it .
If I had to start over I’d probably start with a plumbers apprenticeship. I like the work, and there’s something to be said about having “completed” a job at the end of a day that you don’t really get even if you close a feature.
Fuck no.
The tech worker pipeline:
help desk > sysadmin > CISO > goat farmer
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Can confirm.
Worked in tech for 18 years, now I fix rust old cars and try not to touch computers beyond looking up wiring diagrams and replacement parts.
Honestly it’s just the Internet. Tech is fucking awesome, as long as it’s decoupled from anything and anyone else trying to control, monitor, impose, or otherwise fuck with the tech that’s mine, bought or built fairly. And also the untold psychological torture the Internet is just constantly inflicting on us.
I prefer cabin in the woods, but my paycheck says small house in a shitty neighborhood.
Actually, that cabin may be cheaper. Property is way more expensive in dense areas.
A major reason lots of people move to the country in retirement is because the land is cheaper and.they end up with a bigger house and more land for less than they were paying before because it’s cheaper land with lower property tax.
great movie, too
I plan to open a bar when I stop working in tech. The farm life is not for me, but I love the atmosphere of a good bar.
Depends on the person and what they’ve dealt with. I’ve worked IT since '99, but I’m not really burnt out. There are definitely things I dislike, but I still enjoy tech, I still enjoy gaming, and I’m still interested in future tech, even if I do agree I don’t like the direction it’s going in.
Part of it is that I seem to have a pretty decent burnout warning sensor, and I just stop whatever no work thing moving me that way for a while. Yes I like games, but I like reading, I like climbing, I like biking, I like photography, I like nature, I like the stars, etc.
Another reason may be that while I dislike the way some tech is going, I have other worries about either nontech stuff or just the main reason tech stuff is going in wrong directions, and those worry me more, so tech can still be an escape from worse worries.
For me it’s not the direction tech is going but rather why it’s going that way. Tech used to be about innovation and creating cool stuff. Nowadays it’s more about turning a profit. Cloud was not new or innovative, it was just a more profitable way of doing things.
Agree with the sentiment. Solar and print farms might be part of the picture though.
Farm? I would take a single acre of overgrown wasteland on a former landfill if it was a legal option to live there.
Uhm, why landfill??
Desperation for anything else.
Ahh I seem to have missed that undertone
