I'm a American and part of Generation X. It's rather kind of you to assume I'll get to retire.
Well, as a tech worker You just might. :)
What will you do after tech?
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#12I’ve cut code since ‘71. Now that I won’t be doing it professionally I’m going back to how I started by hacking stuff that interests me. Retirement merely means I tell me what to do.
That last sentence sums up why the home server is still a hobby, even though I pay the bills administering systems. People ask me how I do both without going nuts.
It's simple. At home, the things that annoy me about the job don't exist.
If it's broken and I don't feel like fixing it, it stays broken. No due dates, no planned outages, no SLAs. If I like an app it stays, if not it disappears. No processes or approvals. No people problems. No BS.
They're really not the same thing at all, and I'd imagine many careers that are also hobbies work the same way for many. Playing with cars on the weekend isn't the same as being a full time mechanic.
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#13I'm planning on becoming a High school teacher. for the last 20 of my career
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#14There's a lot of things I'd like to do after tech: learn to draw or paint, play games with friends, learn to cook, read, maybe learn to write, work on my garden, play video games, strength training, learn chess, study history, travel ... anything that I would have time and energy to do, both of which I am running out of as I pass through middle age.
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#15I probably started to get out about the time this term "tech" showed up. I keep programming and stay away from buzzwords as much as I possibly can.
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#16Make (more) cheese, I guess.
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#18I've moved on to management and it's been awesome.
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#19Chickens, maybe.
I am retired from tech but I might want to build a family of happy chickens and freeze dry their eggs. No idea if I would do it as a business or just stockpile freeze dried eggs and share with the neighbors.
This idea was prompted by the recent supply chain issues, egg shortages, panic buying, weird world issues and finding that freeze dried foods are expensive. I can see why. Freeze dryers are expensive, time consuming and a little noisy. Either way I will be building a quonset style barn with as much solar as I can put on and next to it. I carved away a little bit of land from the horses so that I have more room for solar and chickens.
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#20I saw a couple of people retire from big old blue chip tech companies (think Intel and IBM). I saw a lot more people burn out, die before retirement or change careers. I burnt out a few times and now make VR games for a fun semi-retirement.