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Re:Ask HN: Former software engineers, what are you doing now? by juniper_strong on Saturday July 25, 2020 @04:54PM (#23952325)
That's where I'm at. Well not "FU" money, maybe "I would prefer not to" money, job off-shored so I did nothing for a while.

I had this big list of all the things I wanted to do when I stopped working, and in six months, I didn't even start doing one of them. My girlfriend said, "You're still on the computer all day, you might as well get paid for it".

I hate it when my girlfriend is right.

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Re:Ask HN: Former software engineers, what are you doing now? by throwaway234101 on Saturday July 25, 2020 @08:44PM (#23953514)
> "You're still on the computer all day, you might as well get paid for it".

I took a year off a while back and pretty much did the same thing. If I ever take that much time off again, I'm going to go someplace that has no internet.

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Re:Ask HN: Former software engineers, what are you doing now? by hardeeparty on Saturday July 25, 2020 @08:50PM (#23953543)
Same - I was doing a bit of contract work on the side when I quit. Did some traveling (briefly) and then ended up making those gigs my job. Haven't even touched my FU/1-year-savings money yet after almost a year...
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