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> I'm looking at leaving tech. I was planning on leaving tech before the layoff. In fact, I was hoping to use my last job to fund my education in something els
by the_only_law 3y ago
> I'm looking at leaving tech.
I was planning on leaving tech before the layoff. In fact, I was hoping to use my last job to fund my education in something else, and then had to piss away my savings while out of work. I was telling people at the time that that was the last job I ever planned on working in software.
Now I’m very close to just resigning and accepting I’ll never get out.
- coldbrewed 3y agoI relate to this. Golden handcuffs seem great until you're trapped in an expensive mortgage in a HCOL city in a career that you despise. If you want out, I'd strongly encourage you to start investing in that education now. Working a day job and taking night classes is challenging but it'll start building a foundation to exit -- or at least provide some novelty. I took my severance and put it into an accelerated EMT program which is giving me some badly needed routes forward. Regardless, I wish you the best of luck no matter where you go. Sometimes we just need to pay the bills for a few years and figure out next steps.
- bhag2066 3y agoI'm trying to decide whether there is a real good opportunity to learn in that. If you are working full time and going to night school one night a week, and you don't feel excited on the day you have night school - you've chosen the wrong field to retrain in and will likely end up in the same place. Important information