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Where to Go After a Lifetime in IT?
Pikoro asks: "I have been working in the IT field for the past 20 years or so, and after getting hired by the largest financial company in the world, I thought I might have finally found a place to retire from. However, after working here for almost a year, I find myself, not exactly burnt out, but longing for a complete career field change. It's not that doing IT related tasks aren't fun anymore, but they have become more 'work' than 'play' over the last few years. Since all of my experience has been IT related, I'm not sure where I could go from here. What would you consider doing for a living, after being in a single field for so long?"
To Hell, of course !
Votez ecolo : Chiez dans l'urne !
I'll take "Laughing all the way to the bank" for $100k/yr, Alex.
If you expect anything like the same money, about your only options would be producing porn videos, politics, or some other life of crime.
Otherwise, get a job flipping burgers at your local McDonalds, and work your way up.
I'd become a fireman.
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Truck driving is becoming quite lucrative these days. Go find an outfit and have them train you. Many will pay for your CDL training if you sign on for X years.
You get to see the country and sit on your ass all day. I couldn't think of a much better job.
Insane?
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
The logical next step after working a lifetime in any field is the grave.
...I wanted to be... a LUMBERJACK!
Its not "fun" anymore? That's why it's called work you boob.
I knew the car analogy was in here somewhere
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
dodging rush hour traffic on a vehicle offering you not protection whatsoever and trying not to turn your face into chiseled spam on the asphalt or get totaled by a truck - sure, that's how I relax!
You clearly dont understand how "ask slashdot" works. Someone asks a question, and then we all make fun of that person.
I'll just use my special getting high powers one more time...
For me since I'm already fluent in two languages it was an easy choice to go into interpreting.
There's still a market for BASIC->Pascal porters?
Trolling is a art,
Duh.
You could be a Wal-Mart greeter.
I'm considering raising organic beef, lamb and eggs.....
You won't get very far if you don't first discover that you need to be raising cows, sheep and chickens to get the beef, lamb and eggs you're looking for.
Insane?
No, the voices told me I'm fine.
Yeah, I figured that out years ago. Now, when I look at, say, a slimy, dead sump pump, I say to myself, "Is it really worth $200 to avoid washing my hands and changing my clothes?" I've saved a lot of money that way.
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." -- George Orwell
I suggest becoming a lumberjack. Or something exciting, a lion tamer.
Programming to lion taming in one go...
You don't think it might be better if you worked your way towards lion taming, say via software engineering?
You know that very few, if any, projects are ever really finished. You're a hacker who knows how to shoot from the
hip to get a job done on deadline, even if it isn't "elegant". You know that "Done" usually only means "it works at the moment and when
it breaks, we'll fix it".
And you say you're a toy-maker?
Remind me not to buy my niece's next swing-set from you.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
That post is officially called Helpdesk ?
I'd tell you the chances of this story being a dupe, but you wouldn't like it.
That reminds me of the joke about the farmer who won the lottery. He was being interviewed about the win and was asked what he was going to do this year.
"I'm going to farm"
and next year?
"I'm going to farm"
so you are just going to farm?
"Yep. Until the money runs out"
This used to be a joke with a bit of a hard edge to it, but now it isn't that much of a joke in Australia.
meh
So it would be like doing IT again.