A Hacker News reader asks:
Burned out from tech, what else is there? Specifically the user asks:
Has anyone transitioned out of being purely an engineer to something else and found more happiness? I’m ok with moving out of this area and not making as much money.
This is something that I'm sure a lot of people have considered but maybe didn't make the effort to change due to the change in salary.
Some of the suggestions in the responses are not all that practical or realistic, but I like the one that says:
Your workday isn’t a monolith; it is a series of tiny tasks. Try deconstructing your job to identify intrinsic motivation. Which micro-tasks do you look forward to? Which raise questions you think about and work on in your free time? Which tasks do you avoid, put off, or find immediately draining? If you can’t identify interesting tasks, you are likely looking at too high a level of abstraction. Break “working with clients” down until you find the specific unit of work (e.g., “debugging edge cases” vs. “proofreading emails”) that sparks interest.
This feels like a good way to assess things on a more 'meta' level to see where the discontent is really coming from.
Now on to this week's hand-picked productivity links!
