If you left your current industry, what would you do for a living?
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that's really cool!
i think id love to do something along the lines of (physical) product design
im currently a software engineer. ive been into keyboards for a while and designed a good number. few things are as satisfying as taking an idea from something on paper or in my head to a shiny, pretty thing to play with
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Electrician. This is not a farfetched idea, by the way. Tumultuous times; each day could be my last workday.
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You are not the only one. x.com/benjamin_horne/status/2093749991680442462X (formerly Twitter)Ben Horne ๐บ๐ธ (@benjamin_horne) on XMy cousin is 29 years old and no longer sees a long term future in SWE, so he recently made a hard switch to the electrician path. He didn't even get laid off, he actually *quit* his six figure SWE job to do this... His reasoning is that by having the balls to be decisive and pull the trigger on โฆ [warn: that site may not be what you want to be on]
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Ah, a recurring question that undesirably keeps me awake and staring at my bedroom ceiling these past couple of years due to all this AI apocalypse rhetoric.
Wish I had a firm answer. Preferably, not something frontline customer-facing, and where I can still exercise agency.