There is no back story here, but just curious of you who actually started off as an engineer and decided to switch early, mid or late career. What are you up to now? Why did you switch? How are you liking it?
Ask HN: Developers who switched careers, what are you doing now?
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#2Moved to renewables. Wanted to try and help with climate change and needed new challenges.
Solar is a fantastic industry. Lots of room for improvement feels like internet did in thr mid 90s. Just a ton of enthusiasm and a sense you're part of something big and important.
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#3I could imagine woodworking in the future!
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#4Moved to renewables. Wanted to try and help with climate change and needed new challenges. Solar is a fantastic industry. Lots of room for improvement feels like internet did in thr mid 90s. Just a ton of enthusiasm and a sense you're part of something big and important.
could you please describe how you did the switch?
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#5I am wondering if after changing career, would they still read this site, or is it part of what they wanted to get away from?
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#6Switched to remodeling houses and landscaping.
I switched because this is better. Healthier. Saner. Happier. More in line with my long-term goals and general growth.
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#7Not sure if this is what you mean, but I 'switched' from an ML consultancy to entrepreneurship. I now build and market my own projects ([1], [2]) and try to gain enough ad revenue to replace my former salary.
Started 1.5 months ago, and enjoying every minute of it! No longer occupying my mind with corporate power dynamics saves a lot of cognitive bandwidth, but to my surprise it has been replaced. I thought I'd feel more 'free', but instead I now feel self-imposed pressure to make this one shot count. I know my runway is limited, so every day that didn't tangibly contribute to bottom-line growth feels wasted. I can rationalize it by reminding myself that I can always get a job and try again later, and that I should be spending most of my time on mid to long-term goals that have delayed effects. But that hardly changes how I _feel_. All in all, I'm really glad I made the jump, and I'm still super excited about what I do now.
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#8I could imagine woodworking in the future!
One more down the dev-to-woodworking pipeline [1].
[1]: https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149...
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#9I could imagine woodworking in the future!
One of my "retirement" daydreams is to have a garage where I'd spend my days doing woodwork. There's something about building things with your bare hands that is very appealing to me.
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#10Not sure if this is what you mean, but I 'switched' from an ML consultancy to entrepreneurship. I now build and market my own projects ([1], [2]) and try to gain enough ad revenue to replace my former salary. Started 1.5 months ago, and enjoying every minute of it! No longer occupying my mind with corporate power dynamics saves a lot of cognitive bandwidth, but to my surprise it has been replaced. I thought I'd feel…
I did something similar. Building is the easy part. Getting meaningful traction is difficult.
My own projects: