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Fortuitous timing for this ask and while I will presume you imply 'career change' my response is not to that degree yet here is my 2¢ for those that may find va

Fortuitous timing for this ask and while I will presume you imply 'career change' my response is not to that degree yet here is my 2¢ for those that may find value. I have undertaken extensive learning in electrical and mechanical engineering in recent months but from an applied perspective as I am dogfooding my own ideas after calculating that my recently installed PV system will be producing far more energy than I have chemical battery storage capacity. While my degree is in software engineering my current personal energy solution design correlates nicely to the global energy storage demand that is rapidly growing. As the sole creator and architect of the technology around my past founded entities, and in conjunction with my diverse exposure to physical and logical build outs; residential, commercial and industrial, I am heavily consuming and learning information as it relates to electrical and mechanical engineering in solving my own energy abundance issue. The technology side of my problem is "easy" having built several enterprise platforms but in learning anything new mistakes will always be made, that's the fun part! The speed at which I am able to learn and apply these concepts never would have been possible without the internet, we live in truly surreal times. Point being that if one is motivated enough one can do anything you put your mind to no matter what anyone else tells you. I have been mocked and laughed at for my ideas and once you get past what other people think the world is your oyster, maybe it has a pearl in it or maybe not.

tekno45 5y ago
This is the path i see for myself. Learning engineering so i can do my own projects. Funding it with software jobs. But its so hard to get space for projects...
- bokohut 5y ago
  "space for projects..." meaning time to pursue? As the other OCD's among us can chime in as well, all those "note app" creators here, you can only improve what you can measure so where do you 'waste' your time? Every single person alive is yielded the same 24 hours in a day but one does not need to look far at all to realize the massive time sucks that steals your time hourly, daily, weekly, yearly. I am married with kids and our residence of almost 20 years has never had a television and never will as television in a mental cancer that does nothing but steal one's time and worse it fills your neurons with irrelevant events that have little to no productive meaning for one's own life. Sure one can feel included and talk about "last night's great play" or "How funny XYZ was - did you watch it?" but I guess I'm just a boring nerd as I never have those discussions given that I chose long ago to not waste my time on others entertainment ideas as I have my own ideas to create. One is either a producer or a consumer so where do you 'waste' your time? Is now the time to get organized? Full disclosure: I do have hobbies that 'waste' my time however I also greatly benefit from said hobbies which get me out exercising and also enriches my interests; metal detecting and relic hunting. Just as it is exciting to accomplish something new in code, so to is the feeling of picking up a relic that was last handled by a human one thousand of years ago. Stay Healthy! because that is that very last thing you will own that matters, now only if we had more time!
  - tekno45 5y ago
    No i mean literal space... I want to build my own PV array and storage as well..

tekno45 5y ago

This is the path i see for myself. Learning engineering so i can do my own projects. Funding it with software jobs. But its so hard to get space for projects...

bokohut 5y ago
"space for projects..." meaning time to pursue? As the other OCD's among us can chime in as well, all those "note app" creators here, you can only improve what you can measure so where do you 'waste' your time? Every single person alive is yielded the same 24 hours in a day but one does not need to look far at all to realize the massive time sucks that steals your time hourly, daily, weekly, yearly. I am married with kids and our residence of almost 20 years has never had a television and never will as television in a mental cancer that does nothing but steal one's time and worse it fills your neurons with irrelevant events that have little to no productive meaning for one's own life. Sure one can feel included and talk about "last night's great play" or "How funny XYZ was - did you watch it?" but I guess I'm just a boring nerd as I never have those discussions given that I chose long ago to not waste my time on others entertainment ideas as I have my own ideas to create. One is either a producer or a consumer so where do you 'waste' your time? Is now the time to get organized? Full disclosure: I do have hobbies that 'waste' my time however I also greatly benefit from said hobbies which get me out exercising and also enriches my interests; metal detecting and relic hunting. Just as it is exciting to accomplish something new in code, so to is the feeling of picking up a relic that was last handled by a human one thousand of years ago. Stay Healthy! because that is that very last thing you will own that matters, now only if we had more time!
- tekno45 5y ago
  No i mean literal space... I want to build my own PV array and storage as well..