Been a developer for 20 years and the temptation to quit and be a stay-at-home Dad is really tempting if it was at all financially viable.
this post was submitted on 02 May 2024
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if /dev/null is fast in webscale I will use it. Is it webscale ?
Haha, thanks for sharing
I've threatened more than once that I was going to quit and take up potato farming. Potatoes are good. 👍
I would definitely go for Irish sheep farmer. You get to live in a cute little house in a green pasture by the seaside and the sheep feed themselves. What do you need to do? Sheer them every once and a while? I'd take that over Terraform any day of the week.
Terraform the earth to grow plants, not AWS.
What's your fowl stack?
The goat pastures call to us all.
I can see how decades of working at Microsoft can turn someone into a goose farmer. I've been using their products for decades and some days I never want to see their products again.
he had that waking up moment
It's an older meme sir, but it checks out.
I was going to clear them
Farming implies growing crops. Ranching implies raising livestock.
Dude is actually a "Goose Rancher", unless he also grows both crops as well a tend livestock, then I have no idea.
Mmm maybe regional I’d definitely refer to sheep or cattle farms and farmers etc
I've certainly never heard of a chicken ranch, but plenty of chicken farms.
I always thought: farm = inside (fence or barn), ranch = outside
I actually know someone like this. He's been in software engineering since the early 2000. I recently saw a post from him that he's now a firefighter recruit.
My friend was a pretty accomplished academic. Nothing like a mad genius or anything, but pretty excellent and capable. Wasn’t down with the rat-racey pressure to publish and oversell ideas. Left it all to go live in a small farm town. Last time we talked he seemed happy but it wasn’t the easy and smooth path of academia -> farm town, it was actually academia -> enormous existential crisis -> farm town.
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 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.
It’s interesting because my dad followed a similar path and I wish I had the smarts he did. He worked as an electrical engineer and was with a company contracted by NASA. He told me how he got to work on some of the stuff in the space capsules back in the 70s/80s. Then at some point he became a full-time kitchen designer and was a carpenter. I asked him once why he left such a high-paying and interesting field. He said it was because all of the people he worked with were uptight squares and he just didn’t like it.
He passed away about 17 years ago. I wish he was still around. I could use his advice as a web dev that feels collectively burnt out and in a rut.
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.
This person was building up relevant experience to earn that goose farmer promotion by moving to Chehalis, WA.
Goose Farmer - Remote