It's NOT funny! With all the AI shit, micro-managers trying to be clones of Hitler, and unemployment to make the line go up, it's something I'm seriously considering.

Senior engineer of embedded c/c++ here. I have referred to myself a few times on here as trying to live the superposition of the engineer and the goose farmer. Now that I've built a palace of a chicken coop and there are grown chickens running around with the dogs betweenn the play house and koi pond, my back yard is turning into a village from a Zelda game or something.

My power tools are newer and more numerous than my computing devices by far, lol. And it's all higher end DeWalt stuff because using a good tool can be satisfying as hell. Plus I've already spent more money on wood, and the tools will last a long time.

The kernel (heh) of truth underpinning this meme is real and profound. If you spend all your time on screens and in cyberspace, if you go beyond touching grass and get your fingers in the dirt or build something physical, it could be extremely good for you. It works great for me!

I’m currently going down the software engineer to woodworker pipeline…

I know I specifically asked for a chair, and the chair you made is a very good chair, but my use case is actually reaching things in high places and this just doesn't get to the top shelves so you're gonna need to make the legs longer, I think.

Living the literal dream. Every software engineers fantasy is to be an artisan carpenter.

Same with the neofetch dev, saw all this AI crap coming and just jumped into farming

My senior always jokes about opening a food truck. One day they're gonna push us hard enough that we'll do it, too.

I'm in biotech and my wife and I keep talking about quitting our jobs and opening a meadery.

...and no mandate to use AI to increase productivity

I was a programmer for 25-some years but I haven't written a line of code since 2019. I now get my engineering jollies from the used school bus I converted to a motorhome and from the house I bought three years ago and am finishing up renovating. For money I drive a school bus, which pays about 1/6 of what I used to make but is infinitely more satisfying. As far as retirement goes, I'm hoping to die a painless death before AI replaces all the CDL jobs in the country. I think AI will work fine for school buses, mainly because kids are easier to replace the younger they are.

i once took over a consultancy gig at a high-tech optical lab. when me and the guy i was replacing were leaving on the last day of the handover i asked just conversationally where he was going next, and he told me he was going back to school to be a painter. guy was in his mid-50s.

The shop teacher at my school actually did lose a couple of fingers to a table saw (not at school). Like right after he retired, too.

I did this, except I actually have better pay and benefits than I did working in tech (I was a low paid web developer, now I am a highly paid finish carpenter). I was just warning my coworkers today to get ready for the wave of ex-programmers hitting the trades.

My dad went from db management to running a grocery store.

My one friend is now becoming an HVAC technician

I read "DBMS" as "DSBM" at first.

I need to get out more.

The AI-related bullshit definitely sucks the fun out of programming, but carpenters still have to deal with customers...

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