What will you do after tech?

I don’t know anyone who’s retired from tech, do you? It seems most people burn out and then go and do something else.

I’m burning out and will either do construction or lawn care

Oooh, I know this one!

I spent about a decade as a PM in early-stage enterprise software companies (Box and Talkdesk, among others) and left in 2019 to open a dog boarding business!

I found real estate, had plans drawn up, got permits, found a contractor and ways a few days away from closing my SBA loan. Then the bank called and said they were putting a hold on new underwriting because of this COVID thing... this was March of 2020.

Had to shut that down before I ever opened my doors, but then I started a dog treat business, and that's going well!

Here's an AP article that covers it... that's me at the top with my dogs: https://apnews.com/article/business-coronavirus-pandemic-8ea...

The industry is still relatively young. Plenty of tech workers have retired but they weren’t web devs because the web wasn’t as prevalent yet. My dad was one! He was a project manager for giant mainframe stuff that doesn’t really exist these days.

Startups can easily lead to burnout. Tech itself doesn’t necessarily. I think I’d be quite happy spending my twilight working years at some kind of bigcorp saving up for retirement.

Curious, where is your farm?