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Thanks for the ideas ! 4. is probably what I'll end up doing, the niche field being some sort of devops / sysadmin job.

While reading the impressive amount of responses this thread got I realized I do enjoy helping other developers and generally keeping stuff working. I still end up spending nights tinkering with my .vimrc, it's not like I can't watch a computer anymore without puking.

Good luck to you too !

>pick a role where you're constantly blocked by other people

Excellent advice.

I love how HN still ends up thriving for perfection. If I compile all the comments in this thread I'll have the best optimized way to become the ultimate do-nothing slacker piece of crap.

Didn't think about ETL jobs. Thanks !

>your absence will not be noticed for long periods of time

Be still my heart

That would be nice. I'm perfectly content watching htop and adding some VMs once in a while while playing WoW.

I do some pro bono work for local teams related to my hobby. I'm afraid I would grow to hate the job and the hobby itself if it became real work.

I'll look into those. Thanks.

Nice, living the dream. You're an inspiration. I find devops related jobs the most interesting. I do feel good helping fellow devs and setting up robust infrastructure but don't care about the companies themselves or the useless apps.

It's a bit higher for devs. As a full stack web dev (woop dee doo) with 10 years exp I'm currently earning 45k€/year.

Nice. Sloths can be spirit animals too.

Thanks for the kind words, I'm absolutely not depressed ! I'm very happy with my life outside of work. Some days I even feel euphoric being lucky as I am, being able to play my favorite sport and having a loving family.

I'm only trying to optimize by reducing the time spent working and thinking about work, which I never see bringing me anything else than money.

I'm surprised once again by the nice and helpful community on HN. I anticipated most comments would be people telling me to get my head out of my ass and get to work.

I hope you find a way to chill through life.

SRE would of course require to be on-site but I think building some docker images and checking if some LAMP stacks run fine could be done remote.

Nice. I'll look for one of those. I'd be perfectly content having some designs/specs handed out and implementing them.

30k€/year would be more than enough.

Thank you for your advice. I do not have it in me anymore to get the high paying job and go all-out, unfortunately. I understand the really boring jobs would probably lead to depression and not much else. I think a good alternative path would be to look for real jobs but as a part-timer. I'm not sure if there are any ~20 hours a week dev jobs, but that would most likely be enough.

I'm passionate about playing a competitive sport. I could spend my days practicing / working out / thinking about tactics. Unfortunately I am not a world class athlete so money is not an option there :). I'd just be happy having enough time to go as high as I can on the local tournament scene.