I would be a historian. I was always interested in history and reading history books, but the career in computer science is much more perspective.
Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
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#822Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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 find the change from having a family not very large, say 2x food and perhaps to be very generous +1k clothing. The chief difference is the desire to live in a own space instead of having roommates, which are hard to find with a family. Suppose you live in Cambridge, MA and eat all organic food; rent with roommates and utilities costs perhaps 800/mo, subway costs perhaps 100/mo, food costs 300/mo, clothing is perhap…
> rent with roommates and utilities costs perhaps 800/mo
Ugh, for a lot of us roommates == hell. There's no way I'd subject myself to living with strangers again.
Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
#823Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
#824I would choose an option in wich automation is difficult to apply, also, something that I love to do (so maybe I had to be a pro player of soccer haha).
You got a serious and a kind of serious answer :D
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#825I'm the opposite of a lot of people. I was a private yacht chef now trying to switch career to web developer.
Not that I'm trying to discourage you, but why? Stability ? Money ?
At first because I had an idea for an app which I could not afford to implement unless I did it myself. Now, for love of coding only -- trying to make the switch has cost me everything.
Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
#826I would be a modern day philosopher/thinker (like Taleb, Dawkins, Harris). I would start with the classics and read everything, learn ancient Greek, Aramaic, as well as Italian, French and German (maybe Russian also, who knows) I would study the first proof in mathematics all the way up through modern probability theory. I would throw away my cell phone and do all of this work from a nice modern loft in the Trastever…
Mathematics from axioms: http://us.metamath.org/index.html
Re: Ask HN: If you were to switch career, what would you do?
#827Was just there two days ago, that place is like an engineer's wet dream.
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