For me it’s becoming an electrician, and I actually do a great deal of recreational construction work and enjoy it. But the licensing requirements are insane, a

For me it’s becoming an electrician, and I actually do a great deal of recreational construction work and enjoy it. But the licensing requirements are insane, and that ultimately is what keeps me writing software. Although I think that for a lot of people who feel this impulse, the problem might not be the type of work — it might be that the software you’re working on doesn’t do any real good for the world, or have any impact that you can see. You can change that without having to switch fields — just don’t go to work in ad tech.