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For me, I skilled down. I always told the people I supported, "You only get one chance to rear your child." And now decades after first birth I can easily say
by losteverything 10y ago
For me, I skilled down.
I always told the people I supported, "You only get one chance to rear your child."
And now decades after first birth I can easily say "there is nothing _more_ important than than your children"
I'm not in tech any longer because of my actual ambivalence of technology. I was naturally good at it but hated the chase to keep up.
If you compare the outcome of effort in keeping up in tech to the effort in rearing children then it's a easy answer. The better outcome is always children.
- thatwebdude 10y agoOh my God, are you my future?!?!?!?!? Quit two great jobs because they didn't value my value of children. Programming came easy to me, never learned it anywhere but by myself - out of necessity with a new family. Now that I'm in a better position, I'm already planning my next career pivot; away from cogs and trinkets and into an even better schedule, as well as my real interest which I was too foolish to finish in school the first time.