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what's the career path for someone who went into tech because it was a thing they've always enjoyed and now it paid the bills too - but now they don't enjoy it anymore?

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  • q3k@social.hackerspace.plQ q3k@social.hackerspace.pl

    what's the career path for someone who went into tech because it was a thing they've always enjoyed and now it paid the bills too - but now they don't enjoy it anymore? is it still to open a bar to serve a clientele of other burned out tech workers?

    asking for a friend

    wolf480pl@mstdn.ioW This user is from outside of this forum
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    @q3k writing retro-scifi books for other burned out tech workers

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    • q3k@social.hackerspace.plQ q3k@social.hackerspace.pl

      what's the career path for someone who went into tech because it was a thing they've always enjoyed and now it paid the bills too - but now they don't enjoy it anymore? is it still to open a bar to serve a clientele of other burned out tech workers?

      asking for a friend

      trcwm@mastodon.socialT This user is from outside of this forum
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      @q3k I hear sheep herding is making a comeback.

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      • q3k@social.hackerspace.plQ q3k@social.hackerspace.pl

        what's the career path for someone who went into tech because it was a thing they've always enjoyed and now it paid the bills too - but now they don't enjoy it anymore? is it still to open a bar to serve a clientele of other burned out tech workers?

        asking for a friend

        yinyinfalcon@mastodon.onlineY This user is from outside of this forum
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        @q3k there is also raising goats / other escape to nature jobs like it

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        • q3k@social.hackerspace.plQ q3k@social.hackerspace.pl

          what's the career path for someone who went into tech because it was a thing they've always enjoyed and now it paid the bills too - but now they don't enjoy it anymore? is it still to open a bar to serve a clientele of other burned out tech workers?

          asking for a friend

          mpts@mastodon.socialM This user is from outside of this forum
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          @q3k Ask at Zyankali Bar in Berlin.

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          • q3k@social.hackerspace.plQ q3k@social.hackerspace.pl

            what's the career path for someone who went into tech because it was a thing they've always enjoyed and now it paid the bills too - but now they don't enjoy it anymore? is it still to open a bar to serve a clientele of other burned out tech workers?

            asking for a friend

            eta@gotosocial.i.eta.stE This user is from outside of this forum
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            @q3k when you open your bar or start a goat farm or whatever can I join

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            • q3k@social.hackerspace.plQ q3k@social.hackerspace.pl

              what's the career path for someone who went into tech because it was a thing they've always enjoyed and now it paid the bills too - but now they don't enjoy it anymore? is it still to open a bar to serve a clientele of other burned out tech workers?

              asking for a friend

              jana@social.jsteuernagel.deJ This user is from outside of this forum
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              @q3k Very good question, I have yet to find the answer

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              • q3k@social.hackerspace.plQ q3k@social.hackerspace.pl

                what's the career path for someone who went into tech because it was a thing they've always enjoyed and now it paid the bills too - but now they don't enjoy it anymore? is it still to open a bar to serve a clientele of other burned out tech workers?

                asking for a friend

                leah@blahaj.socialL This user is from outside of this forum
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                @q3k let's ask jwz, but being a night club owner doesn't seem to be without issues either. 😉

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                • q3k@social.hackerspace.plQ q3k@social.hackerspace.pl

                  what's the career path for someone who went into tech because it was a thing they've always enjoyed and now it paid the bills too - but now they don't enjoy it anymore? is it still to open a bar to serve a clientele of other burned out tech workers?

                  asking for a friend

                  tobhe@bsd.networkT This user is from outside of this forum
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                  @q3k I think Barista is the modern slightly healthier version

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                  • q3k@social.hackerspace.plQ q3k@social.hackerspace.pl

                    what's the career path for someone who went into tech because it was a thing they've always enjoyed and now it paid the bills too - but now they don't enjoy it anymore? is it still to open a bar to serve a clientele of other burned out tech workers?

                    asking for a friend

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                    vegard@mastodon.social
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                    @q3k avocado farming

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                    • q3k@social.hackerspace.plQ q3k@social.hackerspace.pl

                      what's the career path for someone who went into tech because it was a thing they've always enjoyed and now it paid the bills too - but now they don't enjoy it anymore? is it still to open a bar to serve a clientele of other burned out tech workers?

                      asking for a friend

                      riley@toot.catR This user is from outside of this forum
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                      @q3k Perhaps get into Consciously Prosocial Tech? Dig up the old People's Computer Company materials, and try to revitalise the old principles with the new tools that have been developed in the half a century since then?

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                      • q3k@social.hackerspace.plQ q3k@social.hackerspace.pl

                        what's the career path for someone who went into tech because it was a thing they've always enjoyed and now it paid the bills too - but now they don't enjoy it anymore? is it still to open a bar to serve a clientele of other burned out tech workers?

                        asking for a friend

                        domi@donotsta.reD This user is from outside of this forum
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                        @q3k@hackerspace.pl i have a surprising amount of friends asking the same question... ,_,

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                        • domi@donotsta.reD domi@donotsta.re

                          @q3k@hackerspace.pl i have a surprising amount of friends asking the same question... ,_,

                          jn@boopsnoot.deJ This user is from outside of this forum
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                          @domi @q3k i saw a job listing at a rug cleaning company a while ago, which got me rather tempted

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                          • q3k@social.hackerspace.plQ q3k@social.hackerspace.pl

                            what's the career path for someone who went into tech because it was a thing they've always enjoyed and now it paid the bills too - but now they don't enjoy it anymore? is it still to open a bar to serve a clientele of other burned out tech workers?

                            asking for a friend

                            whitequark@social.treehouse.systemsW This user is from outside of this forum
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                            @q3k considering how much of a shithead the guy who famously opened a bar to do this is today, i'm not sure that's an improvement for anybody other than you

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                            • q3k@social.hackerspace.plQ q3k@social.hackerspace.pl

                              what's the career path for someone who went into tech because it was a thing they've always enjoyed and now it paid the bills too - but now they don't enjoy it anymore? is it still to open a bar to serve a clientele of other burned out tech workers?

                              asking for a friend

                              szescstopni@circumstances.runS This user is from outside of this forum
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                              @q3k Running a bar (pub?) is very hard work. I've learned a lot about it because of a program I wrote to help running them. Edge cases upon edge cases. And in the morning you have to clean up after the customers who wrecked the place. But I know a lawyer who works behind the bar once a week. For fun. This looks like a good work-life balance.

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                              • jn@boopsnoot.deJ jn@boopsnoot.de

                                @domi @q3k i saw a job listing at a rug cleaning company a while ago, which got me rather tempted

                                elly@donotsta.reE This user is from outside of this forum
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                                @jn @domi @q3k pretty sure if I would go "screw this, I'm out", I would go into dressmaking. That was my childhood dream (shout-out to my mom's soviet-era sewing machine, that thing was a tank) until capitalism made me realize it wasn't a profitable business model
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                                • q3k@social.hackerspace.plQ q3k@social.hackerspace.pl

                                  what's the career path for someone who went into tech because it was a thing they've always enjoyed and now it paid the bills too - but now they don't enjoy it anymore? is it still to open a bar to serve a clientele of other burned out tech workers?

                                  asking for a friend

                                  doomhammerng@mastodon.socialD This user is from outside of this forum
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                                  @q3k sheep farm, from what I heard

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                                  • szescstopni@circumstances.runS szescstopni@circumstances.run

                                    @q3k Running a bar (pub?) is very hard work. I've learned a lot about it because of a program I wrote to help running them. Edge cases upon edge cases. And in the morning you have to clean up after the customers who wrecked the place. But I know a lawyer who works behind the bar once a week. For fun. This looks like a good work-life balance.

                                    riley@toot.catR This user is from outside of this forum
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                                    @Szescstopni Btw, some people can find it easier to clean up after the unruly customers in the evenings rather than mornings.

                                    @q3k

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                                    • whitequark@social.treehouse.systemsW whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

                                      @q3k considering how much of a shithead the guy who famously opened a bar to do this is today, i'm not sure that's an improvement for anybody other than you

                                      lineplus@eldritch.cafeL This user is from outside of this forum
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                                      @whitequark @q3k + 1 for not targeting tech workers as a demographic, interacting with the whole population and/or all neurodivergent people brings way more humanly speaking as an interaction

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                                      • riley@toot.catR riley@toot.cat

                                        @Szescstopni Btw, some people can find it easier to clean up after the unruly customers in the evenings rather than mornings.

                                        @q3k

                                        szescstopni@circumstances.runS This user is from outside of this forum
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                                        @riley Sometimes it's hard to clean up while the party lasts till the morning. @q3k

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                                        • szescstopni@circumstances.runS szescstopni@circumstances.run

                                          @riley Sometimes it's hard to clean up while the party lasts till the morning. @q3k

                                          riley@toot.catR This user is from outside of this forum
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                                          @Szescstopni Not advice, just a reminder that "DSPD" is a thing. People genuinely have different preferred diurnal activity maximums.

                                          @q3k

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