I spent more than 15 years working in technology. During my career I did various jobs as a developer, product manager and pre-sales engineer as an employee, contractor and freelancer.
I am fulltime farmer now: growing wine grapes and making wine, building my own independent winery. It is tough and you have to invest tons and tons of money into it, which I don't really have. There is reason, why are wineries started by rich people. I still have to work few hours a week as a developer to supply my income.
I am in my fifth year and I am happy this way. Working outside is awesome. Work can be very hard, your body hurts sometimes, your income is determined by weather and compile time is one (or more) years.
There is something calming in the rhythm of this work: your work is changing by season and you have to wear tons of hats (which doen't mean that you are doing BE, FE and then maybe devops).
Not that I am caring about it, but I find interesting that being broke winemaker seems to give you much higher social status than being developer.
I am fulltime farmer now: growing wine grapes and making wine, building my own independent winery. It is tough and you have to invest tons and tons of money into it, which I don't really have. There is reason, why are wineries started by rich people. I still have to work few hours a week as a developer to supply my income.
I am in my fifth year and I am happy this way. Working outside is awesome. Work can be very hard, your body hurts sometimes, your income is determined by weather and compile time is one (or more) years.
There is something calming in the rhythm of this work: your work is changing by season and you have to wear tons of hats (which doen't mean that you are doing BE, FE and then maybe devops).
Not that I am caring about it, but I find interesting that being broke winemaker seems to give you much higher social status than being developer.