No longer a Software Engineer, but still in "IT" in the broader sense. * Left SE job for a PhD in CS, roughly 50% of a good SE salary here in Northern Europe

No longer a Software Engineer, but still in "IT" in the broader sense. * Left SE job for a PhD in CS, roughly 50% of a good SE salary here in Northern Europe * Do some Product Management/Innovation advisory on the side I left SE because I found the type of programming one typically does, as well as the Jira ticket-pushing, uninspiring. I still write code, but (almost) only because I enjoy it (a PhD in CS does not necessarily involve much, or any, programming).