It's not that uncommon for folks to move into other careers after working as a developer. It can be a demanding job and the pace of change can be hard to keep up with.
While there is plenty of space to keep doing this forever, is anyone here thinking they will move away from this life before typical "retirement" age?
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Sort have already done it. I love coding, in general. But these days (and probably has always been true) companies expect their coders to work in a way that isn't healthy for them. I know this personally from decades of it. I loved it. The work itself. The deadlines. The 'walking on water' and doing amazing things. At the time.
But now that I reflect back and consider offers currently coming in today with job offers? I realize that companies will forever expect too much, or be unrealistic, and also not plan projects well. Regardless of Agile or anything else. I've done various methodologies over the years.
I wonder if the expectation of coders is unrealistic but no company wants to change that because they want to extract every ounce they can from them. And remember, I loved my work no matter what company I was with.
And don't jump on me if you haven't done been expected to "walk on water" and work 90 hours a week on a regular basis!
I realize there must be exceptions out there!
But... this does seem to be the 'norm'.
I've just read the comments. I have no plan right now. I just wanted to say that I realized that the dev.to community is full of nice people from these comments
Getting into software is one of the most rewarding things ever. I love it so much I could never see myself retiring. That being said. Will I do what I am doing now forever? It is hard to say. I want to keep pushing my skills and growing and developing. Right now I am doing machine learning and I can improve on that a ton. I honestly would like to do this my whole career but I think my specific job functions will change.
I was being tongue-in-cheek too. I did solve it by going back to work. I just don't think I'd enjoy doing nothing, or not coding most days.
Haha I'll take note that I'm boring. Enjoy
1.5 years off.... That sounds like either life-goals, or what you thought you want, that results in boredom. What did you do for those two 1.5 year periods?
Well, I haven't started to work full-time in software development, so it's not really a retirement, but my vision is:
1) Don't have full-time (40h/w) work, not even multiple works combined.
I'm making a career transition into writing full-time and wrote a long post for FreeCodeCamp on alternative career paths for devs recently: freecodecamp.org/news/alternative-...
Too many people think careers have to be this set path of X1 => X2 => X3, but you can make lateral movements to increase your skill surface area and try new things.
Having a basis in technology just gives you a solid way to bring in income even if you don't do it full-time.
I’m starting to think software development doesn’t have a “retirement”. Liken to being an artist, sometimes you just feel to urge to create things and accord it commitment.
Been in this industry 20 years...am I weird? Maybe. But I also enjoy it and I think it might stave off the Alzheimer’s...😎