Re:I quit the tech industry, but don't know what to do next
by notanothereric on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @11:41PM
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Assuming the typical 4D metrics of career development won’t resonate with you - skill development, title advancement, monetary growth and “follow your passions - then consider either what excited you when you were 10-12 years old OR look for an altruistic mission helping others leveraging your current skills …
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Re:I quit the tech industry, but don't know what to do next
by sinenomine on Thursday December 22, 2022 @12:01AM
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The person is refreshingly honest.
Spending one's prime years of life as a glorofied ChatGPT instance doing data piping chores is a sad fate.
We should be able to do better than that.
Re:I quit the tech industry, but don't know what to do next
by Beaver117 on Thursday December 22, 2022 @12:05AM
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Skill development- while I really respect people who develop fully to principal or higher, I just can't see myself doing that. And the higher titles bring higher stress that just isn't worth it to me.
Monetary - the benefit from more money becomes negligable as you go up the income scale. Although being a billionaire would be different.
Altruistic missions - I considered this actually, but then realized the cost of failure is much higher. If I cause an outage in big tech, they lose millions of ad dollars, who cares. But outages or delays in nonprofits can cost lives or livelihoods, and that's much scarier.
Going back to what I liked at 10-12 sounds good