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I quit in '23. I didn't have F-U money (heck, I don't have running water) but I did inherit some money from my parents when they passed, enough to buy a shack on some land and to get my living expenses low enough that running sound and playing music could pay the bills. I will note that I did quit before my parents passed on, mostly because my kids (I am 48 and had them young) had graduated college and I realized I w…
There's always been absurdity though, right? These are some I can think of or have witnessed since starting my dev career in 2010: - 4GL business languages making developers redundant - Big data - Cloud computing - DevOps - LLMs For those about to quit, I salute you.
It worked, I feel much better and started working on my own projects again, but now I feel like that gif from Community when Troy walks in with pizzas and the apartment is on fire. The state of the entire computing industry is strongly making me second guess if I want to continue in this career.
My wife and I are in a good enough place financially that I don't need to work for a long while, but... I dunno. There has to be a pretty significant course correction before I'm willing to enter those trenches again.
The sad thing is, this is the second time that my career of choice has evaporated out from under me (I was a projectionist in the 2000s). I don't know where I'm going to go from here.
Think about it all the time. Can’t stand how AI has made everyone at a company a pretend expert at everything and discussions are now just everyone’s AI responding back and forth to one other, and nobody seems to notice or care.
I salute the bravery of everyone in this thread. In my 25+ years of working in tech, the hiring market has never been worse, and it was really, really bad for a few years of that career. I know talented ex-coworkers who have been looking for a job for 2+ years and had to resort to stocking shelves at Home Depot while they kept trying. Right now, I don't think I would have the courage to even quit a job that I absolut…
I'm not saying it's easy out there. But simply being talented is a small part of finding a job, especially given the post-COVID shifts in the labour market.
All that being said, I think anyone quitting should only do so with either another job lined up or at least a 12 month runway.
2. lots of stuff. there are games, there is Warhammer lore, also family business. I'll likely stay in tech as a hobby, but shit, feeling burnt out at 17 is one of the worst feelings imaginable. I'm feeling like I'm 40 actually, and I'm tired of staring into the abyss. I'd rather stare into some assembly. who knows? maybe, I'll drop that Chromium CVE and watch the world burn.
It took me couple of months to recuperate. Turned down couple of similar jobs and some nicer ones.
Then I started working on cheap sidewalk delivery robots, knowing nothing about robotics [1].
Made far enough to lunch a pilot (as a research project) and thinking about commercial pilots afterwards.
Absolutely don't have FU money, so I'm unfolding this and let's see where this would lead me [2].
[1] https://manvel-robotics.com [2] https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/unfolding
I quit in '23. I didn't have F-U money (heck, I don't have running water) but I did inherit some money from my parents when they passed, enough to buy a shack on some land and to get my living expenses low enough that running sound and playing music could pay the bills. I will note that I did quit before my parents passed on, mostly because my kids (I am 48 and had them young) had graduated college and I realized I w…
May I ask where in Colorado?
Financially, I'm in a place to (lean) FIRE, but my wife is 6 years away from FIRE. The plan is for me to be a stay at home dad (supplemented by the above FIRE income), while my wife who is also in tech continues to work and advance her career. In our soonest timeline, that leaves me 10 months to pursue hobbies and projects before an infant makes focus time more difficult. I've spent the last two months on my backlog of videogames, writing some music, hitting the gym, and exploring new hobbies (mahjong, climbing, and drawing). I'm hoping to focus my pursuits into quarters (Q3 being music and Q4 being video game development). Hopefully, this will cement habits enough that they'll continue as my life transitions.
But to circle back to my worries above. I'm planning on exiting the workforce for good if possible. If I enter it again, it will most likely be in 6-8 years (as kids enter school). This is a long time, and likely the industry will shift significantly in that time. I fear the cash cow that is software development will be less lucrative in that time, or that my skills will be too outdated. So while I desperately want the year off, another year of work would put us in a more secure financial position. And I'm most in my prime now, and therefore able to secure a high paying gig right now. It's /probably/ fine, but becomes an issue if we hit road blocks in the next few years (layoffs, injuries, economic disaster, etc). That's a lot of financial anxiety that I probably don't need to have, but it's still present. While the economy remains shaky, I don't necessarily feel confident that my purchasing power will keep parity over the next few years.
I quit in May. I'm a bit worried though. The gig was good, people were great, but writing on the wall was that management expected devs to be so bullish on AI that no handwritten code would exist moving forward. Simultaneously, deadlines were getting aggressive and OKRs more optimistic now that everyone can be a 10x engineer with Claude. I probably could have ridden it for another year if I really wanted to coast, bu…