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minus-squareorca@orcas.enjoying.yachtslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoI’ve been in tech since 2005 and I wish I had the means to bail like that. I’ve honestly considered taking a fat pay cut and going back to driving a forklift.
minus-squaresverit@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoI know that feel. Tech jobs are so mentally exhausting that you begin to wish for a job where your brain can finally get some rest :/
minus-squareorca@orcas.enjoying.yachtslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoI get the thousand yard stare more often as I get older. I learned that it’s my brain forcing itself to take breaks.
minus-squarenilloc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoI started in 2006 web design & development, worked till 2019 when my company dissolved, 5 months before the pandemic. I moved out of the city and I’m fixing rusty old cars for peanuts. It’s nice, but can still be stressful. Just in a totally different way.
I’ve been in tech since 2005 and I wish I had the means to bail like that. I’ve honestly considered taking a fat pay cut and going back to driving a forklift.
I know that feel. Tech jobs are so mentally exhausting that you begin to wish for a job where your brain can finally get some rest :/
I get the thousand yard stare more often as I get older. I learned that it’s my brain forcing itself to take breaks.
I started in 2006 web design & development, worked till 2019 when my company dissolved, 5 months before the pandemic.
I moved out of the city and I’m fixing rusty old cars for peanuts. It’s nice, but can still be stressful. Just in a totally different way.