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Ask HN: Former software engineers, what are you doing now?
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting; toxic in what way?
I guess fumes coming out when you do welding are toxic. I have done it myself a few times and remember thinking about smell and if it can indicate I will get cancer frim it..
Based on my experience with machinists I think they might mean on a personal level (although the fumes are toxic too). The machinists I've met have been pretty hard to deal with. I can imagine the work environment being unpleasant, especially if you aren't prepared for that.
Re: Ask HN: Former software engineers, what are you doing now?
#231. Opened a ski mountaineering shop ( https://skimo.co/ ). I backcountry ski most mornings in winter/spring before we open at a casual 11am; work on the site in the summer. 2a. Sick of pointless discussions about languages/frameworks/architectures, none of it matters to low-traffic/low-tech business. 2b. Sick of meetings/arguments to decide what to build. Making business and tech decisions simultaneously is amazingly…
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Re: Ask HN: Former software engineers, what are you doing now?
#24In the priority order:
1. Climbing mountains, hiking. 2. Have a goal to learn something new everyday.. thats how i measuring quality of the day.. zero learning = bad day 3. From time to time short term works to earn some money. Usually companies very surprised then i tell them that i prefer short term projects. Shorter = better
So far so good ;) (approx 10 years)
Good luck
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is FIRE? Is that a different acronym for FU Money?
Its Financial Independence Retire Early. FU money is 10x FIRE.
>FU money is 10x FIRE
How do you figure? I always had in my mind that FU money was the amount you needed to quit immediately and be fine forever, which also sounds pretty much like FIRE. Granted, my mental model of FU money is not cash in the bank but passive cashflow which is probably coming from investments FIRE-style, which is maybe where the difference is.
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#26I got my helicopter CFI and CFII and started teaching in May of this year. I also interview for Karat so I'm not completely out of software but I'm not writing code or managing people anymore. I left because whether or not I was working my brain was. I get less actual time off now but I feel like my batteries get completely recharged. Plus I get paid to fly helicopters which is still unbelievable to me.
Flying helicopters for a living is the best job. You’re getting paid to pilot something constantly trying to tear itself apart.
Re: Ask HN: Former software engineers, what are you doing now?
#27I wasn't quite a software engineer, but a data analyst/scientist/engineer/term-du-jour at a brand-ish name software company for ~8 years, so pretty close in terms of the day-to-day work and culture. 1) I'm a professional cartographer, sort of. I make wooden topographic maps. 2) A bunch of reasons. I was never "supposed" to work in software -- I went to school in mechanical engineering, and wanted to get closer to som…
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#281. Full time parent 2. Reached FIRE
This is offtopic, and just my own relationship with money and my own religious education, in no way judging you or others, but do you ever get any guilt by thinking "well, I contributed to this child's charity, but I really have enough cash to just pay his whole procedure off -- which of course will leave me cashless and I'd have to work again"?
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#29I mostly dodder around trying to remember where my pants are, and wondering if it was worth it for whoever named the creat() system call to leave the "e" out.
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#301. CTO, is that cheating?
2. It's not so much leaving Software Engineering, it's reframing it. Software Engineer when done well is about creative thinking and problem solving. If you feel that you are in a rut, try going to an organization that's not just about coding. If you are really not interested about Software Engineering as a discipline, I'd start by taking a break then reassessing.