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Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
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#482Carbon farmer. Figure out ways to sequester carbon in soils while providing nutrient dense food to the local community and making a profit doing it.
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#483Interesting timing. I'm quitting my development job at the end of the month and going back to school full-time to become a furniture maker. I have a lot of reasons for wanting to do this. The most straightforward ones are that I want to create something tangible and enduring with my time.
Congrats, that sounds awesome! What are the economics of that business like? I love woodworking (as a hobbyist) but it seems like most people that manage to make a living at it are doing so through volume (e.g., cabinetmakers) vs. something like custom fine furniture commission work.
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#484Surfing instructor.
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#485Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree, "the unexamined life is not worth living." We should start a club for expats that all want to do this.
In a sense, I do this. I work/earn 10% of what I could, and spend 90% of my time studying all the things I want, moving around different countries. On one hand it's very nice but on the other, earning little gets tiresome (especially now in my 30s). My 2017 is for reversing the percentage.
How do you find consistent work doing that? I try to work part time as a developer and usually either my clients pressure me to full time or hire someone else who will.
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#486I'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…
Opening a bakery would destroy all the pleasure you get from baking
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#487Lounge singer
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#488I would choose to be a physical therapist. You get to actually move around all day and also help people and interact with them. Also great potential for research as this is a developing field. Sure would beat starting at a screen all day long, takes about 5 years to train though, 3 full time in school and then would take several more years to match software engineer salary.
Me too. I've been going to physical therapy for 2.5 years now, and I really love it.
Unfortunately it would take me 7 years of schooling, and they make significantly less than a software engineer.
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#4891. Guitar player in a band, either rhythm or lead
2. Study and compose (not lyricist!)
I can spend all day playing my guitar and jamming with other passionate musicians from all walks of life. I would love to take the time to explore jazz, blues and classic rock. I have guitars and I just don't seem to make enough time for them.
Unfortunately, I don't believe I'll make any real money in this space, so my assumption is that food and board is paid for by a patron so I can play music publicly in return.
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#4901. 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…
Teaching math, reading, and thinking is far more fundamental than programming. Entry level programming is very simple to learn if the fundamentals are known, and the fundamentals are more broadly useful than training people to walk through a Node tutorial