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Discussion on: I Was One Day Away From Quitting — And Then My Career Took An Unexpected Turn

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Marco Sbragi

I really understand you. I retired after many years of work. And with my wife leave Italy for coming in Georgia in Tbilisi. Georgia is a very beautiful place but i'll be honest after 3 years i knows 20 words of this language. It is very difficult to understand and more again to learn at my age. All habits change, all rituals, getting up to go to work, new country, different people (fantastic persons). Then i rethink why i chose to involve in IT, because i am curios, like you if i well understood, want to explore and resolve problem and discover every time new ways to do things. For this reason i started again to study,, builded my personal website, and play with Projects on IA and write some open source tool. Ah, and I started playing the guitar again. Good luck to you.
Ciao.

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Vaishali

Thank you so much for such a thoughtful comment. Moving to a new place really changes everything — the language, the routines, even the small daily habits.

The city also had beautiful weather, and I was really lucky with the people around me. For me, the biggest challenge was actually the food more than the language.

It's inspiring that you started building projects again and even picked up the guitar. I’ve also been thinking about learning the guitar someday and exploring some hobbies once things settle down a bit.

Wishing you many more curious adventures ahead. Ciao!

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Giorgi Kobaidze

Did someone mention "Tbilisi, Georgia"? 😄 I live there, and yes, Georgian is an incredibly difficult language to learn. I take it for granted since it's my native language, but I can only imagine how challenging it must be for others.

It's nothing like most other languages, it's completely different. I recently started learning Italian, and many things feel pretty easy because I already know English and can spot similarities between the two. Georgian, though? That's a completely different animal. It even has its own unique alphabet.

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EmberNoGlow

"That's a completely different animal" - How beautifully this is said 😋