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

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

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Post by homarp »

mkaziz wrote: post #179
ttcbj wrote: post #146

1. Write children's books - because I love reading good books to my children, and if successful, the revenue scales and they have great recurring revenue potential (much better than adult books, I think). 2. Try to bring software development education to underprivileged kids in some way that eventually scales and has real career potential. There is part of me that feels this has potential, because the opportunity for…

What kind of children's books, out of curiosity? I have some interest there myself.

the ones you can't find right now with the message you want.

e.g. the pleasure of being a maker.

the pleasure of finding things out.

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Post by slig »

js2 wrote: post #309
tazjin wrote: post #88

I'd open a bar/pub with good cask ale and decent electronic music. Actually whenever I get too stressed out at work I consider doing this, I've got the necessary capital and in a city like Oslo where people don't care about beer prices it can surely be made into a profitable thing.

https://www.jwz.org/about.html

NSFW. Do not click that link from HN.

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Post by vmarsy »

jimbokun wrote: post #245
magic_beans wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the point of owning tech books when a) much of the content is online and b) there are new developments in languages/frameworks all the time?

I find reading print much more enjoyable, but I have a hard time quantifying why. Maybe a break from the eye strain of staring at screens? Nostalgia? Also, the book form leads to a different way of engaging with information, even if its digital. When I look at technical books on Amazon, I always read the table of contents first. Gives an idea of topics covered and overall organization, and thus how the information is…

So do I. What I particularly like with print is let's say when remembering a specific formula, I would remember it better by picturing its exact position in the printed book. It works even better with handwritten "cheat sheet" since you can also use some creativity to make it stand out more (borders, color,...), and thus remember it better.

On a computer screen this doesn't seem to work.

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Post by kzisme »

kbart wrote: post #49
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…

"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)" Strange, why do you say so? We live in the era of IoT and everything has at least one chip inside them. I also do system/embedded programming, but never felt the lack of possibilities to advance my career.

How did you get into doing system/embedded programming?

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Post by jeffsaracco »

I'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 starting point

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Post by HockeyPlayer »

sailfast wrote: post #159
FigBug wrote: post #56

I'd buy a sailboat and take people on tours in Greece. Except I hate people, which is why I work in tech.

Save the money and deliver sailboats. Large market for trained crew to take yachts from Point A to Point B. :) No people except those you bring. Free yacht.

Can you tell us more about the training and experience required to be delivery crew?
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