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I work in tech, i hate it. the idea of being in front of a computer, having to talk to indians and queers all day, having insane deadlines which no human could ever meet. all of it is just too much for me. i started my own consultancy business which is nice, but now my friend and i are thinking, why not create something more tangible? i've always wanted to do carpentry or mechanical work, something with my hands, something where sure, it'll be hard, but at least i'm not looking at the clock or my phone every 2 minutes, counting down the days until i can go do anything else. i even have the capital to do this, i have around 200,000 saved up, so i could feasibly leave my current situation and go do something else. the problem is in today's economy, it only takes one lock down, or shit mandate, and all my plans go crashing down.

i simply hate that the tangible jobs(agriculture, masonry work, trades, etc) are devalued as worthless and the most useless sectors are the highest paying (insurance, finance, virtualized systems). it drives me nuts, because humans were never designed to be in front of a computer for so long.

I work in tech, i hate it. the idea of being in front of a computer, having to talk to indians and queers all day, having insane deadlines which no human could ever meet. all of it is just too much for me. i started my own consultancy business which is nice, but now my friend and i are thinking, why not create something more tangible? i've always wanted to do carpentry or mechanical work, something with my hands, something where sure, it'll be hard, but at least i'm not looking at the clock or my phone every 2 minutes, counting down the days until i can go do anything else. i even have the capital to do this, i have around 200,000 saved up, so i could feasibly leave my current situation and go do something else. the problem is in today's economy, it only takes one lock down, or shit mandate, and all my plans go crashing down. i simply hate that the tangible jobs(agriculture, masonry work, trades, etc) are devalued as worthless and the most useless sectors are the highest paying (insurance, finance, virtualized systems). it drives me nuts, because humans were never designed to be in front of a computer for so long.

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I was doing software at my last job. Worked for the most evilest of evil pillars of the american empire. Hated it, place was full of over the top egos, liars, cliques and very few genuine good honest developers that gave a shit. They were all marginalized, tortured and out of the cliques of course. Most quit on their own early.

The whole place was loaded with Indians. So much after a few years I felt like I was LIVING in India. If I wanted to live in India I’D LIVE IN INDIA. The floors were so heavily Indian my leaving heavily hit their ratio.

Now I do renovating my own house (so I can get it ready for rental and open up the entire world for moving to / getting a job). I’ve never done renovating before so everything is learning a whole new profession. And I can tell you good construction workers deserve a lot of credit. There is as much technicality and skill to learn here as in engineering.

I feel like I’m taking up the learning curve of a full new profession. I already took the time to learn a whole profession. I enjoy it, but I would also like to get back to what I spent a lifetime getting to know and like doing. Maybe I can branch off to robotics / manufacturing to learn something new but also keep programming involved. Since I now “know” I can just take up whatever I want.

Will you like construction work coming from programming? I can tell you I’m living the office space dream. Good renovators make tons of money / are wealthy, if you‘ve got the designer’s eye as well as intelligence, which you should have coming from programming.

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I’m living the office space dream

You put strychnine in the guacamole ?

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Well I guess I could do that too, would save the world

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You could also take your travelers checks to a competing resort.