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Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

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334 points glasscannon | 2 comments | 04 Jul 25 12:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source
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aspbee555 ◴[04 Jul 25 14:13 UTC] No.44464757[source]▶
I felt like I was dying at 35 years old, my body was completely betraying me, exhausted, constant pain, no life as absolutely no energy on days off and still exhausted starting the next week. Even years in the Army never left me feeling like that

I had no idea it was the misery of the IT job that was causing most of my pain and suffering, and it had nothing to do with the job itself, it was the endless insanity of everyone else around me doing exactly what they were informed would cause problems instead of having discussions with people that actually knew how shit worked. I was endlessly picking up everyone elses mess and treated worse than a pile of shit all because people were incapable of having a speck of respect for other people since all their hatred for computers fell on me

I GTFO of the career of misery and took half a decade to finally start feeling better

I have now spent years and countless hours working on software and I greatly enjoy doing this work again and find I get even more done than I used to simply by doing life the way I need to instead of how some backwards/abusive control freak "needs it done"

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foobiekr ◴[04 Jul 25 16:09 UTC] No.44465726[source]▶
What do you do for a living post-escaping the IT career?
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aspbee555 ◴[04 Jul 25 20:20 UTC] No.44467573[source]▶
I did part time work as a mentor which was way more fulfilling than the IT work. I eventually found my way back to programming my own project
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1. soVeryTired ◴[04 Jul 25 21:11 UTC] No.44467910[source]▶
Roaming a labyrinth and savaging young Athenians might seem like a positive change in the short term, but ultimately it’s probably just as unfulfilling as corporate IT.
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2. aspbee555 ◴[05 Jul 25 14:46 UTC] No.44473141[source]▶
The mentoring was amazing when I started, but unfortunately the company was bought/sold and things unfortunately went downhill from there (corporate profits rarely coincide with providing actual help and is more designed to make paperwork/justify spending the precious numbers. I was great at the actual job, sucked at the medical paperwork)

I am thrilled I got to help some kids in need of help/understanding/acceptance at least and seeing the joy/results first hand is something I will never forget