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I quit my job in order to hike every trail in Ireland with my girlfriend and make videos about it: https://www.youtube.com/toughsoles. We're not making a profit by any means - so, not successful in that regard. But we are seeing the country that we belong to, and I think we're slowly raising awareness about the incredible places that exist tens of kilometres from people's front doors.
I'm back in coding, but I wasn't for a while. For a while, I was in management, and ended up a CTO. Twice. If you find yourself not enjoying writing code, then perhaps it's not the perfect job for you. It pays better and is perhaps more fun than manual labour and cleaning jobs, so have a think about what your pain points really are, but genuinely: if you think you'd prefer to be a farmer? Go be a farmer. You'll proba…
No offense, but these are not really great comparisons for someone with the aptitude of a programmer. I don't really understand the point you are trying to make with that statement.
OP could go to an accelerated nursing program for a year, not sit behind a desk, help people, be mentally stimulated, and make six figures (at least in the bay area).
Plus tons of other career options.
I was a successful coder for a few years. VB and java. I watched myself and those around me rot, in body and mind. That is some fucked up morlock shit right there. These days I'm a handyman. Carpentry, plumbing, painting. Stuff like that. I still work on my own software projects. Art stuff.
I transitioned from eng to PM in my mid-twenties when I realized I was good but would never be an excellent software engineer.
I later did a stint as a Director of Engineering and to this day my experience of engineering is helpful both as a (former) startup founder and now VC.
I prefer to hire product managers who have an engineering background, who can work seemlessly with an engineering team and understand what they need to do.
If you want to explore this area see if your current employer will let you work on some PM tasks (building use cases and user stories, defining user profiles etc) or just read up on the subject want try to inject some learning into your current dev process.
Worked as architect, movie critic, civil engineering, radio host, radio manager, race engine engineering (F1), and back to coding. It makes the most fun. I knew several others from my town with similar jumps. As architect you are trained as generalist and can do everything. Another architect colleague also worked in F1 engines, others did race boats or went to the Olympics.
I don't know if I can say I've gotten out of coding, though; my current job is teaching journalism and programming at a graduate program. Wouldn't mind going back to a programming-heavy job, though it probably wouldn't be software or systems engineering.
I'm in medical school
I was a successful coder for a few years. VB and java. I watched myself and those around me rot, in body and mind. That is some fucked up morlock shit right there. These days I'm a handyman. Carpentry, plumbing, painting. Stuff like that. I still work on my own software projects. Art stuff.
But still on HN?
I was a successful coder for a few years. VB and java. I watched myself and those around me rot, in body and mind. That is some fucked up morlock shit right there. These days I'm a handyman. Carpentry, plumbing, painting. Stuff like that. I still work on my own software projects. Art stuff.
But still on HN?