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This sounds great. I'm assuming you have first hand experience with this scenario. Would love to hear more details such as type of industry, how to find, etc.

• systemvoltage 5y ago
  Yes, my entire first half of the career was in such an orthogonal industry. I learned how to write software out of necessity and now that I am working in a software engineering team, I kind of miss my old days. There were no endless jira tickets, no code reviews, just pure solving problems and fixing things. You can try to write letters to companies in agriculture, food production, manufacturing, chemical plants, beverage (wine, beer, etc.), textiles, construction, lumber, etc. Pay won't be good but if you have what it takes, can definitely become a favorite person of the whole company and depending on leadership skills, you can rise up quickly and start taking on bigger responsibilities. An example would be finding manufacturing defects in production lines - stick a bunch of cheap industrial cameras, use OpenCV to build an app that can detect them, use polarizing filters to remove plastic wrap glare, automate barcode scanners with ultrasonic switches, collect important manufacturing data such as units/hour, build a statistical process control system, build GUIs for operators, etc. In your letter explain what sorts of things you can do for them.