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I worked in IT for around, 10 years as a sysadmin/devops/backend developer. Around 2010 i realized i was simply not happy at all with what i was doing. I hated
by Azeralthefallen 10y ago
I worked in IT for around, 10 years as a sysadmin/devops/backend developer. Around 2010 i realized i was simply not happy at all with what i was doing. I hated it, and felt like i was constantly borderline burning out. I had grown fat and lazy. Nothing about my job brought me happiness regardless of where i worked.
So i decided to drop everything and go back to school to become an electrician. I loved it and i loved working with my hands, and compared to working in IT i loved it so much more. I loved the people i was working with, and we worked well. Mainly installing surveillance for SMB's.
However about a week before my apprenticeship ended i was installing a ceiling camera, and a perfectly fine ladder ended up collapsing and giving out. I landed in the worst possible way and severely damaged my spine and lower back.
End result even after a ton of physical therapy i couldn't do what was required of me as an electrician. So i ended up going back to IT to do devops. I am extremely fortunate that i had a second skillset to rely on or i am not sure how i would make ends meet.
However i still find working in IT, soul crushing and draining. I hope eventually i can go back into the trades and do something i want to do.
- rootsudo 10y agoI am sorry to hear this. :(
- chiaki 10y agoSorry to hear this..
- lowlevel 10y agoSorry about your luck bud... I'm feeling about the same... coming up on 20 years of borderline abuse/burn out.
- sreenadh 10y agoI am really sorry to hear about your accident. I too started doing some DIY project around the home and I am working on a small indoor garden now. I can relate to your feeling. I too gave gained a lot of weight, now I am reducing it. I am getting sick of sitting for long. Plus, I am want to touch and feel the things i work on. Since you are trained as an electrician, I have a suggestion which you might enjoy. Why don't you try microsoldering? I show a nice [article](https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/watch-the-master-microfixer-jessa-jones-at-work https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/watch-the-master-...), there is also a video related to it. That is a job you can do sitting down. The lady doing it was biologist by training. Don't give up.
- relaxman 10y agoCheck out 'Foundation Training' helped me a lot with the back problem.
- relaxman 10y agoI went from not being able to be sitted, standing or walking to be able to do everything again, including running and walking for hours.