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

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136 points todsacerdoti | 3 comments | 04 Jul 25 13:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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gdbsjjdn ◴[04 Jul 25 14:39 UTC] No.44464974[source]▶
What kind of business? Most of the dream ones people envision are capital-intensive and failure-prone (speaking as someone who started a capital intensive business that failed)
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sigmoid10 ◴[04 Jul 25 15:00 UTC] No.44465133[source]▶
I think the problem is the "dream ones" part. Yes, everyone would love to make tons of money with very little work. But that almost guarantees high risks or very high capital exposure. There are countless small business opportunities that you could operate from home with almost no risk or exposure if you have a car and can afford some basic tools. But you won't get rich - or at least you'll have to work your ass off for a while.
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1. pwn0 ◴[05 Jul 25 06:59 UTC] No.44470653[source]▶
Some examples?
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2. hackable_sand ◴[05 Jul 25 07:54 UTC] No.44470909[source]▶
Plumber
3. anonzzzies ◴[05 Jul 25 09:09 UTC] No.44471278[source]▶
Plumber, carpenter, welder, electrician etc. In the countryside where I live, I do all of these when I feel like it for myself, friends and sometimes strangers in trouble (pipe burst, no power). It pays well; I could live of that and save very comfortably here if I did it half of the time, but I only do it the odd few hours while people begging for welding jobs, wooden doors, etc. It can be a nice little business, especially if you can find employees and move on to house building or renovations, but it will never be bigger than that was of course, you would be in the countryside.