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Ask HN: I want to leave tech: what do I do?

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136 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 13:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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mathiaspoint ◴[04 Jul 25 14:26 UTC] No.44464854[source]▶
Buy rural land and live on investments while you start a small business. That's what I'm doing.

I think we need a monthly "who wants to be fired" thread where we share our progress on this.

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atemerev ◴[04 Jul 25 14:35 UTC] No.44464939[source]▶
If you already have enough investments to not work, why would anyone even work in tech?

Leaving the grind when you already kind or rich is easy mode. Leaving it when your net worth is negative is another story.

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1. thih9 ◴[04 Jul 25 14:48 UTC] No.44465049[source]▶
Off topic, I started working in tech because I enjoyed it. That it was also well paid was a nice coincidence. You can be in the grind and be unaware of that.

Of course people like this still suffer due to overexposure to work and js frameworks; and many eventually grow to dislike tech jobs and want to leave.