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I want to leave tech: what do I do?
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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2025
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While I liked the article, I can't help but feel it was basically, "find your dream job" as the overarching message. It did give some pointers of where it could be, but finding those are going to be harder than just landing any job in the current landscape, which is already difficult.
Which is what I did: working in tech. Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to build things, but I also wanted to support a family. At first I wanted to be a carpenter, but the likelihood of making good money with that was small, so I learned to build websites and decided to make a career out of it (I actually thought about patent law, but realized SW patents don't build, but prevent things from being built).
So yeah, I'm basically doing exactly what I want, and I've avoided working for companies I hate.
That said, I've been doing the same thing for many years now, so a change of pace would be welcome, but I still want to build things. Unfortunately, LLMs are trying to take the part of like (actually building things) and is trying to replace it with designing things. I guess I could pivot to that, but seeing something built doesn't have the same satisfaction for me.
If I had enough to retire, I'd probably start an indie game studio, and I'd hire a lead designer and work on the fun algorithms myself. So my main complaint is what I work on, so I could probably be happier with a different company, but there's no perfect company and I like my current team, so I'm not particularly interested in leaving.