3 ms·

So what did you two end up doing? I'm 52, and work is in a neat little compartment. It's not great, but it's not soul sucking, and has good PTO and a pension a

So what did you two end up doing? I'm 52, and work is in a neat little compartment. It's not great, but it's not soul sucking, and has good PTO and a pension and financially everything's grand and on-track...but work and my career is no longer where I draw value. I could easily see finishing my career here, and I could also see having another job before retirement. (And, I could see retiring ASAFP if I could get the financial and life expense curves to cross. :) )

ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
In my case, I am working on a project with a small NPO (Nonprofit 501c3). I'm the lone developer of a fairly ambitious iOS/iPadOS app that mixes a simple social graph with a geographic database. It's coming along great. Been at it for about a year and a half (over two years, if you count the backend I wrote -over ten, if you count the geographic DB, which I also wrote).
- tomca32 5y ago
  This is really where it’s at. I’m not even close to retirement age, just about to hit 40, but I really think often of retiring and how I want to spend more time working with the nonprofit I volunteer for. Developing software that has real users and really matters to people in the field. When I say I want to retire people always think that I want to sit in a sofa all day…no I want to retire from having to work for a living and work on things that make me feel like I’m doing something that matters. Building useful software for an ngo that works in poor African countries and wouldn’t be able to afford an engineering team is what I want to do, not binge watch Netflix from my sofa. NGO I mentioned: https://mindleaps.org https://mindleaps.org
  - ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
    > NGO I mentioned: https://mindleaps.org https://mindleaps.org Cool! Looks like work that feeds the soul.

3 ms·

So what did you two end up doing? I'm 52, and work is in a neat little compartment. It's not great, but it's not soul sucking, and has good PTO and a pension a

by Damogran6 5y ago

ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
In my case, I am working on a project with a small NPO (Nonprofit 501c3). I'm the lone developer of a fairly ambitious iOS/iPadOS app that mixes a simple social graph with a geographic database. It's coming along great. Been at it for about a year and a half (over two years, if you count the backend I wrote -over ten, if you count the geographic DB, which I also wrote).
- tomca32 5y ago
  This is really where it’s at. I’m not even close to retirement age, just about to hit 40, but I really think often of retiring and how I want to spend more time working with the nonprofit I volunteer for. Developing software that has real users and really matters to people in the field. When I say I want to retire people always think that I want to sit in a sofa all day…no I want to retire from having to work for a living and work on things that make me feel like I’m doing something that matters. Building useful software for an ngo that works in poor African countries and wouldn’t be able to afford an engineering team is what I want to do, not binge watch Netflix from my sofa. NGO I mentioned: https://mindleaps.org https://mindleaps.org
  - ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
    > NGO I mentioned: https://mindleaps.org https://mindleaps.org Cool! Looks like work that feeds the soul.