I don't know if it counts. I was a programmer, worked for SaaS companies, and hated everything about that job, and sort of hated myself for doing it. Selling $6

I don't know if it counts. I was a programmer, worked for SaaS companies, and hated everything about that job, and sort of hated myself for doing it. Selling $60k/yr "solutions" to companies with the value proposition that they could lay off several people on their staff and replace them with our product. I also hated being a front-end developer, because of the constant churn of new frameworks and techniques — "article driven development", where somebody releases a shiny new package or writes a neat article, and all the lemmings run in that direction for six months, before running in a different direction. I like programming, and still do it for fun, but it's such a different experience when you don't have to do it "at scale" and in a team environment. I switched to doing design, which I sort of did already, and now work for a non-profit. My work is something I can more or less describe to my family and they don't have a glazed over look in their eyes. Still technically in "tech", but in a different corner of it, working in a different capacity (for less money...)