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When I started my career in IT I consciously started keeping a variety of backup careers in mind, and I intentionally keep my expenses where I could simply swap careers and make it all work financially.

Probably my most viable backup plan is to move into banking or finance. Decent money available there, still tickles the part of my brain that loves understanding numbers and processes while also working my brain entirely differently than troubleshooting network problems. Data science, HIT and HRIT are also options in considering if I want to stay in the realm of IT, but that depends on how burnt out I get really

In my personal life I've been picking up more off-screen hobbies to help stave off burnout among other reasons. I'm hoping career-wise I can promote myself into management before I get too burnt out, but you never know

It's not just tech workers. More people are going back to retro tech. Physical media instead of streaming, one device one function no internet, that kind of thing.

I don't even work in tech but I want this more and more each, I blame it on society getter consistently worse each year.

100%. I just talked about buying a farm to my colleagues yesterday, and I'm not making this up.

Yep. I've middle aged coworkers who are saying quite emphatically that they can't imagine retiring in tech -- they know they'll need to move to another industry well before retirement, in part because of AI reducing the need for certain skillsets. They also know they're too old to be considered a 'good hire' due to ageism in tech. Most seem to have made plans to try and move on to something relatively low skill for the last part of their working lives. I know one of their plans is to do a food truck.

I think it has more to do with maturing with age rather than the tech itself. At least in my case. And I don't really want a farm. But living in the wild is pretty cool and calming.

I’ve always wanted to leave tech and become a boat mechanic but yeah same deal

True. I am eyeing woodworking more every day.

Tech workers is like the majority of fediverse. You won't run out of people to ask.

Edit: A friend of mine working in IT mentioned that his ex-boss retired and then became a children's book writer. If financial constraint isn't an issue, I would be a polymath and travel to learn more about the world. That was actually the point of education is to be a more well rounded person.

Nah, I just want to retire not live on a farm. The last place I'd ever want to live on this earth is a rural community, I've tried. It is terrible.

True for me.

Meh.

If you're in a toxic workplace, sure. If you're in a workplace that lets you have fun with your work, learn, discover new things and tinker - the 9000th day is exactly as exciting as the 9th day on the job.

Just said almost exactly this not a week ago.

https://lemmy.today/comment/20889621

buy the farm Slang

• To die, especially suddenly or violently.

Yeah, sure, I guess...

Somewhat - I still have a softspot for my ROG Ally and IPad for reading, but yes I would like to have the option of engaging in tech when I want and not be forced to because of survival

Confirmed.

I'm halfway there having a farm but still required to have a tech job to sustain life.

Hoping to retire in 3-4 years though and after that I'm getting say in to growing my own food.

Yes but I'll still have a Linux thinkpad on the farm

Andre Staltz, who developed manyverse, posted recently showing himself working in construction https://bsky.app/profile/staltz.com/post/3m6qwv56xyc2v

I think he is still coding too, but it is cool to see how people balance it out.

No, I really can’t.

Sitting in that office I literally felt my life ending. I contemplated all the ways it could be better. Carcrash. Fire. Get superhigh and destroy.

Otoh, I love my projects deeply.

Not a farm, but I'd like to open a coffee shop or bistro type place someday. The kind of place where people in my neighborhood can meet up to chat and grab a really good sandwich, not just stare at their laptops.

YES

ngl, i thought about becoming a farmer, but i value living in a society above living on a farm, though both are actually important to me.

the thing is to be a farmer in today's economy is close to impossible, and also i lack experience and equipment.

Yep, absolutely

Farm? I would take a single acre of overgrown wasteland on a former landfill if it was a legal option to live there.

Can confirm , bought farm. No sewage , no water. (But fibre internet)

I work in tech and long for something like this, sadly I got in very late in life and will never earn enough. I could change companies to max my earnings but honestly where I work now is 33 hours a week and incredibly flexible and manage my neurodivergence very well.

Absolutely not. Farming isn't anywhere as romantic as those city slickers think. I'd certainly like to get off the hamster wheel but shovelling manure isn't anywhere on the list if things I'd rather do instead.

Can confirm.

I have worked in tech since 2011 and I'm definitely looking for a way out. Don't think I'm cut out for farming though.