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Two suggestions for burnout: 1) Always change companies, change industries, and/or change locations multiple times before trying a career change. Unfortunately
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
Two suggestions for burnout:
1) Always change companies, change industries, and/or change locations multiple times before trying a career change. Unfortunately, if you are the type of person who gets burned out in software then you’re almost certainly going to get burned out in other engineering disciplines unless you learn how to manage your stress and self. Better to learn stress management and burnout prevention before investing in a career change.
2) Always get hands-on experience in an industry before investing in education to switch to it. Spending 2-4 years getting another degree is insanely expensive when you include the cost of lost wages and starting over as a junior. This alone could burn you out even more. You need to be 100% sure that the other career is the correct choice for you before you invest in education.
- dr_orpheus 5y agoTo address both of these also consider looking for software engineering at a company that is not primarily a software company. Especially if it is a small company, there may be significant opportunity to try something else/get experience with it while still being in a more comfortable career position. I don't have a super specific suggestion for somewhere to look, but anecdotally I worked for a small aerospace company and for some time was working on software/networking but was also physically turning bolts assembling a spacecraft, building test equipment, etc., some of the time.
- tekno45 5y agoI'm more interested in the physical sciences now. I think the degree would mostly be satisfaction. But moving careers sounds like a bad idea so far.