I quit my software dev job last April. Burned out and in a rough spot mentally. I worked as a dev for 8 years and it was great but changes to lifestyles and work life from Covid were taking a toll on me.
I hoped to become an electrician but that didn’t really work out due to circumstances outside of my control.
I work as a security guard now and have been doing this since October. Honestly never saw myself doing this job before but it turns out it’s a pretty sweet gig.
It’s low stress and low anxiety which is just what I needed. The people I work with aren’t your stereotypical security, maybe it’s because of the city I’m in but everyone is very nice and open minded.
I get to chill and read books for hours while I get paid. It’s the mental vacation I needed from programming.
Yeah no doubt. There’s a couple people I work with that I’ve been helping out because they want to get into software development. So I try to point them in the right direction for learning resources and such and give them encouragement on their projects.
Quite a few people I work with are in school to move on to other things. It’s a great job for getting studying and homework done on shift.
I hoped to become an electrician but that didn’t really work out due to circumstances outside of my control.
I work as a security guard now and have been doing this since October. Honestly never saw myself doing this job before but it turns out it’s a pretty sweet gig.
It’s low stress and low anxiety which is just what I needed. The people I work with aren’t your stereotypical security, maybe it’s because of the city I’m in but everyone is very nice and open minded.
I get to chill and read books for hours while I get paid. It’s the mental vacation I needed from programming.
I write about it occasionally on my blog.