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?

[jn@boopsnoot.de]

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

[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

[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.

[elly@donotsta.re]

@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

[doomhammerng@mastodon.social]

@q3k sheep farm, from what I heard

[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

[lineplus@eldritch.cafe]

@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

[szescstopni@circumstances.run]

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

[riley@toot.cat]

@Szescstopni Not advice, just a reminder that "DSPD" is a thing. People genuinely have different preferred diurnal activity maximums.

@q3k

[doomhammerng@mastodon.social]

@q3k if you also offer some accomodations you are sure to be visited mostly by former colleagues

[kasperd@westergaard.social]

The follow up question is whether it is tech in general or just the management decisions of certain companies.

[szescstopni@circumstances.run]

@riley That's right. But if you run a pub you forget there's such a thing as sleep preferences @q3k

[robot@wetdry.world]

@elly @jn @domi @q3k ooh, i've always wanted to learn how to make clothes

[philpem@digipres.club]

@q3k I've been told pig farming is surprisingly rewarding

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

@q3k lmk if you find out I would like to know too.

[domi@donotsta.re]

@jn@boopsnoot.de @q3k@hackerspace.pl do you think they'd hire me without knowing the language? maybe there's still hope for me in this country

[jn@boopsnoot.de]

@robot @elly @domi @q3k it's a good community skill, like cooking! i should start too, i have a bunch of stuff that's slowly but surely falling apart

[yavien@social.hackerspace.pl]

@q3k my friend (not from it) has been considering using her savings to invest in an electrolysis machine and course/certificate to provide affordable care for trans ppl, we need more of that rather than ai slop

[jn@boopsnoot.de]

@domi @q3k job listing for this particular shop said knowledge of german or farsi is required, but i don't know how much that is in the day-to-day

[agturcz@circumstances.run]

@q3k The customer I am doing the project for once mistakenly sent me an invitation for advanced forklift training. I've answered them, that I do not have basic training yet, but I'd be glad to get it.

To this day I regret they had not followed with an invitation for the basic training.