We have the programmer to woodworker pipeline, programmer to runner pipeline... is there a programmer to tugboat operator pipeline I'm missing out on?

From what I remember from this particular code-base, there are also:

- Programmer to farmer

- Programmer to musician

- Programmer to writer

and of course

- Programmer to landlord.

There is also literally anything to programmer. I didn’t use to be a programmer, but now I’m a programmer consultant.

Don’t forget programmer to pilot. Every time an aeronautical post appears they come out of the woodwork and chat about equipment.

Can we just agree there's X to Y for every X and Y?

There is, but the size of the "to" and the dissimilarity of Y to X is what makes the pathway interesting.

Duck farmer specifically.

Tugboat pilot has always been my GOTO answer for "dream job".

Programming and in general tech work has been extremely highly compensated compared to most other industries the past few decades.

This means a lot of intelligent (and not so) folks who could do whatever they wanted chose tech to chase the money. Get a little lucky in life and maybe stock options and they get to do what they actually enjoy the latter half of their life.

Most of society can only dream of such capability. The ones who actually have the bravery to pull it off vs. grinding out their final days in a career they are not passionate about are incredibly inspirational to me at least!

Tradesman Baker to Systems Admin here :-P

I also became an old school computer programming geek (and still am) before ending up managing pirates.