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Where to Go After a Lifetime in IT?

Posted by Cliff on from the starting-the-next-chapter dept.

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?"

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  1. Where to go after a lifetime ? by jalet · · Score: 5, Funny

    To Hell, of course !

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  2. Limited options by taustin · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:Where to go after a lifetime in IT? by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

    Insane?

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  4. I didn't want to be an IT drone... by Gogl · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...I wanted to be... a LUMBERJACK!

  5. Re:Cars oddly enough by techpawn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I knew the car analogy was in here somewhere

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  6. Re:Me? by arabagast · · Score: 5, Funny

    A fireman became him ?

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  7. Re:Careers by crabpeople · · Score: 5, Funny

    You clearly dont understand how "ask slashdot" works. Someone asks a question, and then we all make fun of that person.

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  8. Re:Me? by paeanblack · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd become a fireman.

    Yeah, they deal with fewer fires.

  9. Re:Me? by FiloEleven · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apparently that sort of thing happens all the time in Soviet Russia.

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