Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?

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Post by thecourier » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 2:19 PM UTC

mrlyc wrote: post #38

When the tech world moved away from me (doing mainly embedded C for the last thirty years might not have been the best idea for my career), I became an aged carer for my disabled mum. I learned a lot about cleaning, gardening and adding subtitles to films as she is going deaf. I also learned a lot about editing spoken word audio files for pacing, volume and noise reduction as she wrote a memoir then recorded an audio…

ETFPOS programmer here. yeah, it's easy to become obsolete in this area, considering most of the time we work with legacy code

Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?

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Post by psiops » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 2:19 PM UTC

A 3-D ocean farmer: http://greenwave.org/3d-ocean-farming/.

Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?

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Post by squozzer » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 2:20 PM UTC

Sniper. Then I could blow people's heads off at 1000m. But my eyesight isn't 20/20 anymore. So exotic dancer it is.

Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?

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Post by mathattack » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 2:20 PM UTC

Teach martial arts.

Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?

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Post by thecourier » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 2:20 PM UTC

logronoide wrote: post #19

Gigolo

what about a gigolo's funded winery? think about the possibilities

Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?

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Post by sidcool » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 2:20 PM UTC

Physicist. I love applied math. I love to explore and understand how everyday things work. And I love Richard Feynman.

Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?

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Post by kyoob » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 2:20 PM UTC

I'd open a bookstore/cafe that sells tech and engineering books. We'd run tech classes in a space in the back, with a discount for vets and artists looking to change careers. I'd live in the apartment above the store, with a garden on the roof. The wifi would be phenomenal.

Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?

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Post by motdiem » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 2:21 PM UTC

zbuf wrote: post #30

Lawyer. With years of building and debugging code I find the logical aspects of the law rather interesting. Though the amount of reading, less so.

Same here. I find law intellectually fascinating, and my limited working around jurists and lawyers showed me there's a significant proximity with debugging and testing.

Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?

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Post by dasmoth » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 2:21 PM UTC

anotherarray wrote: post #67

Something that doesn't have a process or technique. Something that can be done out of my heart.

Pretty much this, I think.

The trouble I run into is that there seem to be people rather eager to create process for any field where there's much money to be made.

That said, areas like agriculture do look kind-of enticing.

Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?

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Post by milge » Fri, Jan 06, 2017, 2:21 PM UTC

Metal Fabrication. I've actually been taking metal classes for the last 6 months and just finished my first pair of motorcycle foot pegs on the CNC machine last night.