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I'm majoring in CS related-field, and I used to have tons of passion for it and underlying tech, and worked as full stack dev, but my mind was very different in a good way (better at logical/cognitive demanding tasks, creative, productive, etc). Things happened, and I just can't stand living in society, experiencing all this materialistic world and feeling sick about it. I'm truly traumatized and I've been trying all available means to improve (so I'm not asking what rule 3 is against)... I can't feel any passion for what I used to do... The meanings I gave for my life and hope are away. I don't care anymore about digital world, industrialization, I just can't. So my performance has suffered due to all this.

So, it can sound funny to read this, but I am considering living in a farm I have access to and do my own farming to eat, artesian well for water, constructing just a little home to live... I don't exactly care about electricity. I would probably be happier just by burning some stuff to have light at night if needed and looking at the stars all alone until death.

What do you all think about this?

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[-] paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Consider working in another country. You could be proud of your CS skills again if employed in a more meaningful way, or maybe just because they are the key to more exciting life experiences. What I'm thinking of is when my family was traveling five or six years ago, we spent a little time on the island of Niue, which is somehow associated with New Zealand. People there told us it would be easy to get a visa and stay as long as we liked because we had tech skills. We arrived with very little--a kind of hippy adventure--and kids with health needs, so we were not ideal immigrants, but the skills were so valued that they went out of their way to offer this though we were just there for a visit. Anyway, just anecdotal, and we didn't take them up so I don't know how it would have worked out, but there are opportunities like this worth looking into.

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