I'm very happy as a software engineer, but if I could do any job in the world where money wasn't a consideration, I'd go back to bartending. I worked a the clo

I'm very happy as a software engineer, but if I could do any job in the world where money wasn't a consideration, I'd go back to bartending. I worked a the closing shift at a very popular bar in the West village, NYC around 2007-2009. I had my regulars, the work was simple. I'd get to know them and learn about their lives. I made a bunch of friends. People I would have never met otherwise, because of social strata or just having completely different lives that wouldn't intersect otherwise. I'm not a huge fan of smalltalk strangers, the kind that you might have with a stranger on the subway or someone at the dog park. But for whatever the reason, those weren't the kinds of conversations that were occurring late nights at the bar :)