“The smartest engineers I know are burned out and starting vegetable gardens”
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#2Very relatable. I've started to put more of my tech related side projects on the back burner and got into working on restoring / upgrading a old truck I got at the beginning of the pandemic.
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#3Nice one. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
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#4I'm definitely not in the smartest engineer camp but took a break this last summer to grow tomatoes. Very therapeutic.
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#5I'm in this tweet and I'm not sure I like it. But I have to say my veggie patch is pretty dope at the moment
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#6I always tell people that I'm going to quit and become a farmer. I might tell the joke enough times that it becomes true.
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#7> He went away from the basement and left this note on his terminal: "I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
From Soul of A New Machine (1981). Personal opinion, but would that we have a little (lot) more collectivism, find more ways to work together towards ends, versus saving up enough to fuck off & start our own gardens.
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#8The deeper I get into software engineering the more I want to cut myself off from the internet entirely when I retire. Realistically, I doubt you can do it 100%, but I wonder how far you can go without using any internet.
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#9I always tell people that I'm going to quit and become a farmer. I might tell the joke enough times that it becomes true.
Yeah, but then you will get burned out from farming some day. It's what you make of it. Lot of stress in farming when your goal is profit instead of a hobby garden.
My $0.02: people are at least 60% of what makes your day job good or bad, given adequate compensation that is. Maybe try companies that are not in tech but need your talent? Go where you're celebrated, not tolerated and all that. Good boss+Coworkers+environment+pay = doesn't matter that much what you're actually doing.
Also, I was like you and others in my 20's. New career, new country, new state. Maybe become a hermit in antarctica? You get the sentiment, but I no longer feel that way, I started accepting wherever you go, not a whole lot changes that matters. Alwayd gotta take in the good with the bad. The grass is greener on the other side, but maybe unlike the current grass it is itchy when you try to walk or picnic on it.
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#10I'm definitely not the smartest guy in the room by any stretch, ever, but as a decade+ practicing attorney myself and everyone I know have this same mindset. I even love my job much more than most of my peers. But the bureaucracy, nitpicking, bad attitudes that flow over from peoples' personal lives in to work, petty vindictiveness over perceived slights, frequent unpreparedness of peers and judges and outright hatred people have for one side or the other have me hellbent on extracting myself from the work force as soon as possible. And, again, I really like work. But if everyone is going to be cantankerous asses I would rather just be self-sustaining and live a solitary life with books and dogs. So many people just make professional work environments insufferable far too often.