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Hoping the best for you. I'm hoping to either follow a similar path, or dodge computing entirely as a career path, find an interesting job, and keep it as a hobby where I have the chance to work on interesting problems. Don't know that I would describe myself as talented though, but definitely driven.


> Hoping the best for you. I'm hoping to either follow a similar path, or dodge computing entirely as a career path, find an interesting job, and keep it as a hobby where I have the chance to work on interesting problems.

I’m at the point I’m seriously considering this, and I’m just not sure I can do it. Everytime I run through the possibilities in my head nothing adds up. The only viable careers for me to switch into are a) not interesting or b) pay depressingly little and would require me to obtain expensive credentials.


Check out this thread [0] I started the other day, there are a couple of recommendations there.

One of the jobs mentioned is free time rich and money OK, and the other I don't know what the payment is like, but would require credentials.

If you haven't worked in foodservice yet, I actually highly recommend it as an experience, at least in a short term sense.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25243187




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