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>Yep, I'm disillusioned. All the jobs seem pointless or boring. Yeah i felt the same way. Left tech. Now i own a construction business. Very rewarding work. Im
by baremetal 4y ago
>Yep, I'm disillusioned. All the jobs seem pointless or boring.
Yeah i felt the same way. Left tech. Now i own a construction business. Very rewarding work. Imagine people living in or conducting business inside of your work product for perhaps generations.
- giantg2 4y agoYep, I worked at Lowes as a second job one summer. It was more rewarding helping people find stuff for their projects than being a dev.
- Mezzie 4y agoI left my political communications related job and now I work in a specialized lingerie/bra-fitting shop to stretch my savings while I figure out what I want to do next. It's far more satisfying, and I don't hate humanity after every shift. Unfortunately, it's not a long-term way to make a living.
- baremetal 4y agopolitical communications, that sounds... unrewarding. indeed. i wish you the best of luck in finding something that satisfies your objectives in life and provides fulfillment.
- baremetal 4y agowriting code professionally (in corporate america) is almost the definition of being a cog in a machine to me. at a startup not so much; but burnout is real. writing software as a hobby is fun and rewarding.
- mecha_ghidorah 4y agoI mean I can see that. I worked at a small computer repair shop and the way people would react sometimes when we managed to save their family photos or PHD thesis off of a failing disk made me feel like I was genuinely making someone's life better.
- coconutlimeade 4y ago
- scsilver 4y agoHow did you get qualified to build?
- baremetal 4y agoi went up to a jobsite and asked for a job. learned framing. im a quick study. and i had the benefit of a good teacher. once i get a foothold of basic fundamental knowledge i supplement it with reading, just like i did when i wrote software professionally, and anything else.