Since I imagine you're looking for unusual answers that an engineer type could conceivably transfer to:
Theme park design/engineering
Museum exhibit design/construction
Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
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#792I'd love to open a bookstore and a publishing house. But I also would love to be art curator, or something related to art dealing. I read a lot of books (fictions, too) about collecting, fakes, etc. I find that world quite amusing, but I think it is impossible to do a career there without money or networking.
I'm doing this.
Are you an art curator or dealer?
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#793Earlier quoted context omitted.
For sure, but in this scenario I doubt snags pulling anything would be possible. In the video it was stopping the blade before it could even break the skin on fingertips. If the safety mechanism failed though, the resulting injury would be far worse as a result of the gloves, so it might not be worth it in that regard.
The gloves could pull the hand along the trajectory of the blade.
Not if the gloves are conductive too.
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#794(Fiction) Author.
It is very difficult to get published, and till you do, it is very hard to make 'rent and food' money (leave alone serious money) out of it (and sometimes not even then. Most non bestseller authors have day jobs), but if I couldn't be a developer for some reason, that is what I'd do.
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#796Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Do you think women don't enjoy and talk about sex?
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#797Earlier 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?
Mechanical Engineer here (I feel like HN tends to forget about us...). Most of the higher level stuff is pretty hard to find online, especially for heat and mass transfer or fluids. Most other mechanical or electrical engineers I know keep their textbook with them at work either as a reference, to look for some derivations, or to find some empirical data/results.
Thankfully, nothing in programming is anywhere near as technical as fluid dynamics. Most of it can be found on github, blogs, and medium posts.
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#798This is already my third career so it's not that unlikely. Maybe my last career will be outside the system and not a career at all: the creator of a new type of economic system.
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This page explanes it the best. https://stumpcrafters.com/pages/what-is-the-stump-game TLDR; The Stump Game is played with a Stump, nails, and a hammer. Win by being the last nail above the face of the stump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqhtHbqjp8I seems to explain it better ... if you can sell people small stumps of wood for $80 I think you'll go far ;o)
Shipping is part of the problem and but similar games such as cornhole cost $150-$350.
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#800Woodworker. From running two small ecommerce companies I think I've learned enough about MVP, shipping, inventory management, etc. From 25 years as a software engineer I've learned about building tools to automate steps. I'd pick some "hard to find / expensive niche (e.g. Greene and Greene, Art Nouveau, etc.), but offer repeatable designs, not do custom work. That would allow for lots of jigs, fixtures, using cheap m…
This is funny, I came into programming from being a high end cabinet maker. I had to give it up because I'm allergic to the components that make up the 'smell' of red oak. Which we worked with a lot. Theirs a real satisfaction in looking at a your work at the end of the day and being able to SEE it.
I think that's the reason I (and many programmers) enjoy gardening/farming.
Putting your hands in the soil, seeing the growth & blooms, eating your produce - very satisfying!