> decent electronic music And square circles too?
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Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
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> it's not necessary to make $100k+ a year to have a solid middle class life Depends on your circumstances. 100k with one salary?
I live paycheck to paycheck on six figures in the midwest. I'm not broke but I'm certainly not living it up. People act like 100k is life changing money. I think it depends more on circumstances before you get to $100k. If I had parents who paid for school I'd probably be living it up too.
You're making 100k and complaining about paying off school? Where did you go? Do you think it was worth it compared to an in state school with a lower tuition ($7k/yr), in terms of job prospects?
Edit: I'm genuinely curious and not trying to judge your situation. I live in the midwest too and $100k would go very very far with me.
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#603I wonder if asking such question (and inspecting answers given) is not enough to refute the idea behind basic income - that it allows people to retrain into their desired profession, thus making the society more productive. Seeing that most people desire only a relatively small subset of careers (and almost no one want to be for example a dentist, an accountant, not to mention telemarketer or toilet cleaner), I don't…
Interestingly I actually want to be a bathroom cleaner. Nothing dismays me more than walking into a dirty bathroom.
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#604To me the only answer is: asteroid field miner.
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#605Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a VA with one long-time client who can only offer me part-time work, plus the occassional small project related to the work. I also sometimes get a few side jobs from previous employers. For the last several years, I've generally worked an hour per day, M-F. Living abroad on dollars, and staying out of native-English speaking countries and Nordic ones, it's quite easy to live an average lifestyle on around $600/m…
> I'm a VA with one long-time client who can only offer me part-time work, plus the occassional small project related to the work. What's a VA?
Virtual Assistant, so I basically just do admin type work online (for a small startup).
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Please remove this link. JWZ.org attacks viewers referred by ycombinator.com
In that way that a testicle in an egg cup calling HN users brogrammers and finance-obsessed man-children is an attack. It's actually biting satire; an attack would be more direct and in some way actually harmful (ego doesn't count)
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Briefly, and without an intent to shame or embarrass you - I think it's worth thinking more carefully about using (presumably male-centered) sexual language here, especially since the bookstore is named after a pioneering woman engineer.
Women have wet dreams too.
I understand, but this is a pedantic reply that doesn't address the spirit of my comment. To be a little bit more explicit: sexual comments are one of the ways in which tech spaces are made less friendly to women.
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#608I am tempted to partially abandon my career in cloud computing to start a business that... well, has the aim to build better (new) cities.
I wouldn't start with a city, though (disclaimer: I'm not a multi-billionaire), but probably with the individual building. I want to dramatically change the "footprint" of the building in terms of : ecology/sustainability, cost, value for the people investing in the real estate property.
If that's successful, I'd like to then up the target to changing whole "new" cities.
I fully appreciate how crazy and over-ambitious this might sound. Curious to hear any feedback or comment/questions about it.
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#609Recreational vehicle repair. Sales are way up since the industry almost died after 2007/2008, and the manufacturers are producing crap quality in order to satisfy sales demand. It's not uncommon for someone to spend $400k on a new RV and have to take their new purchase back for a months worth of rework -- only to find out there's no service openings for 5 months. What's stopping me is the up-front capital requirement…
Mobile RV repair is extremely common and doesn't have quite the same capital requirements. The challenge is getting set up with a manufacturer to be a warranty specialist. Most of the warranty work required is interior stuff anyway like plumbing, electrical work, cabinet and door re-hanging, re-carpetting, etc. Leave the "roof replacement" jobs to the big shops and you could get started quicker than you think.
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#610I'd be a baker - I've recently (as of the past year or two) started baking my own bread and find it incredibly therapeutic, fun and interesting. Maybe open up a small bakery with a cafe and if it went well expand it to teach classes on how to make bread, pizza, etc... If anyone is also interested, I'd recommend the book Flour Water Salt Yeast ( https://www.amazon.com/Flour-Water-Salt-Yeast-Fundamentals/d... ) as a st…
If you are really considering this, I recommend that you first see if you can volunteer a bit at a local bakery. I also was considering a career change to becoming a baker. I knew someone who worked at a fairly large yet still artisan bakery (their brick oven was built by some specialists who came from France). He let me come work for a day to see what it's like. I quickly realized that as much as I love bread, I'd get bored doing relatively the same thing every day. I think that it's also a life where you can't easily take time off, which depending on your current situation in tech may not be much of a difference. :)