I've already read two stories of software engineers working on the field to end up becoming farmers years later. Almost as if there's a connection of disconnecting from the tech world after getting close to it.

Bruh I’m literally farming rn

Won't lie, I've considered it. The business side of tech can be so disgusting.

I've been working on my garden for >10 years now. It'd be nice to reattach to the real world and nature full-time :)

I noticed that too.

Yet a lot of them do a ton of manual labor too.

I would automate a lot of stuff, write scripts, api's and tools to make it easier.

Maybe that is why I would be a bad farmer 🤷‍♂️

@Grumm perhaps we're not in the disconnect stage yet and once we get there we'll despise apis

Lol. In the last 3-odd years, we've have one software and one hardware engineer leave our R&D department to become proper food farmers..

I always thought it was just my employer driving developers away from development.. actually I still do feel that, but anyways.

Personally, I actually wish I could leave software development and become a carpenter. Already got pretty much everything I need (with a lathe on the way), now I just need a shipping container to turn into a workshop and I'm sorted. 🤔

If I wasn't fixing up motorcycles or dabbling in carpentry, electronics and various DIY side projects, I'd leave the field 15 years ago. People who dedicate their lives to this job sooner or later break. They have to because there's no way to satisfy their inner hunter-gatherer, i.e. their cortisol, testosterone and dopamine levels get all whacked up. Getting fat and lack of sex don't help. Engineering is a scientifically proven downward spiral.

@cprn
>scientifically proven downward spiral

Lol based

@Grumm automating digitally is easy. My goal is to do that analogically. Off-grid. That'd be actually cool to pull off

@iSwimInTheC Unfortunately not bull-shit... If the system is constantly pumping out cortisol, even when threats are minor, the system gets desensitized to the stress signals. We used to react to cortisol because it was produced to initiate the fight-or-flight response when our lives were in real danger. Nowadays it's produced when you disagree with your coworker or some deadline's coming up. So your cortisol rises but you neither fight nor run. The result is a stress response that isn't functioning properly. And that's when burnout symptoms develop. Same goes for other hormones, we don't respond correctly to them any more. Read up and start proper work hygiene that includes workouts, fresh air activities and manual hobbies.

@Lucky-Loek basically sums up my dream life. if you plan to do it, count me in haha