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Unless you are close to retirement, the new job you should be seeking is "How do I heal myself". Unless of course you want to go through the rest of your life with your condition... If school medicine won't help you, you should start looking for some alternate approaches, there are enough out there.
This might sound like a flippant response but it's not: could you move into management? You don't need to know the finer details, but you'd have the experience required to empathise with the developers in your team.
I did not. There is not much work outside IT. Also alimony... Solution for me was to change a lifestyle and sell myself much better. I work remotely a few hours a week.
What is this magic?! Please enlighten. I, like many IT folks, loathe sales. As such I can not sell myself out of a paper bag. Do you have any resources to help in this matter?
I'm not sure what your symptoms are but if this is a degenerative brain disease you may wish to use that time to visit family, friends, and experience new things.
Do you really need to leave IT just because of these symptoms? There are so many areas to work in. Anyway, what illness are you talking about here? Boredom? Got stuck in a place where the project sucked the life and general interest out of you? OCD? Depression? Anxiety? UPDATE: Got good answers about what can cause these symptoms. If you want to leave IT then try to find jobs that are still challenging your creativit…
I did not. There is not much work outside IT. Also alimony... Solution for me was to change a lifestyle and sell myself much better. I work remotely a few hours a week.
>change a lifestyle and sell myself much better. What is this magic?! Please enlighten. I, like many IT folks, loathe sales. As such I can not sell myself out of a paper bag. Do you have any resources to help in this matter?
> little to no concentration and a very low level of comprehension This might sound like a flippant response but it's not: could you move into management? You don't need to know the finer details, but you'd have the experience required to empathise with the developers in your team.
Personally, if I ever get to leave IT before retirement, I plan to equip a workshop and start making electric guitars. It connects various craftsmanship skills with some engineering and art. And the best part is, end product is a instrument.
Unfortunately, this is not the best career choice where I live in (Eastern Europe). Although if you are good, you could make a living out of it. At least I would have better website then the competition :) Backup plan is to build modern/minimalistic furniture where there is no guitar orders.
Another direction would be to create a hub for amateur craftsmen. Well equipped workshop where you can rent a space to make things on your own, or take a course.
As you can see, I would pursue something related to making things as that's something I really love, and I'm doing as a hobby (IT takes a lot of time though). So, my advice would be to find something you love and see if you can make a living out of it.
Good luck!
Unless you are close to retirement, the new job you should be seeking is "How do I heal myself". Unless of course you want to go through the rest of your life with your condition... If school medicine won't help you, you should start looking for some alternate approaches, there are enough out there.
Wow never thought the top comment on hn would be advocating for non evidence based medicine.