Personally, I made a career change which is still in its infancy - but I’m excited about the prospects. I miss my tech salary, but was chronically underpaid in tech at the same time. I’m basically at the bottom, doing what is slightly above an entry level job (I started a bit over a year ago) but I feel so much better about my work.

I still take the time to teach my friends & community as many things as I can tech-wise & give them technical support when they need it, & have thought about teaching a community class based on tech literacy & more advanced concepts if there is an appetite for it. I was thinking about creating a sliding scale (down to free) for the class & using most of it for getting laptops for people who need it. I was also thinking about sending out a call for old computers/laptops & breathing in new life to them by installing Linux & making them run decently well again.

These are mostly just brainstorms, things I haven’t gone fully in on yet - but I feel like the exodus from tech can be a really strong force organizing the people against the state, and I feel these days that tech literacy/tech support from people who have the knowledge is a huge part of that.