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I've gone down endless lengthy detours that often lead to dead ends, but I've learned an immense amount from the OS to CSS. It's finally coming together in a simpler way than I had previously envisioned. Hopefully this year it'll be ready.
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Surely step one is psychological. I feel like being able to accept a lower paycheck is critical to leaving tech if you’re at the over specialized part of your career
That is not merely psychological unless you're very early in your career and life , with no dependents, etc.
Where I live, permits are required for all sheds, and for those above a certain size you have to submit blueprints.
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How’d you get out? For the many over-specialized readers like myself…
Surely step one is psychological. I feel like being able to accept a lower paycheck is critical to leaving tech if you’re at the over specialized part of your career
I recently wrote a small service to get a temperature LED panel on my computer case working. It required a proprietary program to pipe the sensor temps to the display, which only worked on Windows. Being on Linux (arch btw :P), there wouldn't be a way to get this to work. I had a lot of fun learning about how to reverse engineer the inputs/outputs the other software was doing and replicate it in Python.
OP sounds like the ideal employee who works 8 hours, then spends 4 more hours/weekends learning and working at home. For people who like doing other things, work already takes up most of their time and energy 5/7 days, and there doesn't seem to be much time for much else.
One thing I've learned: We all give the same execuse, "Not enough time". The two biggest I hear is working out and meditation. You have all the time in the world, what you don't have is priorities.
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Ai detectors are bullshit. That said, the second paragraph has the distinctive stocatto tone of AI But AI is shaping how we write, so this could well all be hand written just by someone who spends time with AI output.
> stocatto Staccato, which is Italian for "detached, separated". When I see simple Italian words used as technical terms in music or art, I think "oh, this must be what English speakers feel when they work in tech - a lot of common words becoming specific concepts in that particular field".
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Opposite for me. I have an actual shed that I spend time in, doing maintenance work, building physical items (latest one is an auto-refilling bird watering station), and making beer. Given my day job is so desk-bound, and so tech oriented, I find using my hands in my off-time to be very fulfilling and what keeps me sane. Different strokes, as they say.
I had to get out of tech for that reason: i need a physical good I can create and hold. Using my engineer skills to build physical things satiates my brain so much more. I don't think I can ever go back to coding as a job. I just don't care about other people's garbage code, lol. i got out of tech/coding so i could apply my skills to more real world stuff. it's been so much better. i don't make as much but i end each…