If you could not code anymore, what would you do?

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[jonrgrover]

I would go into data science or become a Jazz Musician, data science if I still had my vision, and Jazz Musician if I could not code because of the loss of my vision.

[Mikk Pristavka]

I would get into blacksmithing, carpentry, metalworking, jewelry or anything else involving my two hands, a bunch of raw material, some tools and something wonderful to be created.

Or go back to school, this time trying to actually finish -- most likely psychology or neurochemistry or something similar to help people with faulty wiring.

[Nada Ghanem]

I 'll Join the kids. The only folks who really have fun.

[Nancy Deschenes]

Sleep?

Joking aside, I would hope the reason I can't code anymore is because I'm too busy designing and architecting. I would get to be as creative, but without having to do the work. That really wouldn't be a terrible hardship.

I could also see going back to university and studying in any of a dozen fields that I find interesting; languages/linguistics, history, physics, biology,... and maybe find a position teaching. Or maybe writing.

If I don't have to earn a living, even better, then I can finally get around to all those hobbies that get pushed to "later, when I have time". Yes, definitely those university courses, but maybe less focused, choosing courses based on how I feel that semester. Drawing, painting, skating, writing, dancing cooking,...

I might even have time to stay in shape!

[Dan Benge]

Video Games Journalist

That would be my dream, anyways. :)

Of course if I hadn't stopped what I was doing before coding, I would still be Assistant Manager of a movie theater.

[Arnaud Morisset]

I will do the other things I have in mind and which I never give time 'cause I'm always learning something related to programming.

That includes brewing, selling games (mostly board games and tabletop RPG) and writing articles for webzines on the web (and why not animating some podcasts too!).

And if a little bit of programming was still allowed, I will probably do some game programming too. :)

[IMRC21]

Probably a photographer lol

[George Stefanis]

I'd pursue a chef or a carpenter career. I love both cooking and woodworking.

[Rafal Pienkowski]

I'd like to become a car mechanic with a specialization in young timer cars like Mercedes Benz W124 😊

[Andy Zhao (he/him)]

The thing I wanted to do before code was be a therapist or a social worker of sorts. I think that's still true, but I could see myself doing something with repairing or fixing.

[Meghan (she/her)]

I’d become a therapist

[rhymes]

I would become an anthropologist

[Fabian Holzer]

The professions I'd consider as an alternative would be paramedic and teacher.

[Jess Lee]

Open a bakery/restaurant for people who are diabetic and/or on the keto diet 🍪

[Paul Bird]

I'd be a blacksmith.

I've thought about this question many of times. Or I like to ask myself what if electricity was never discovered. Seems people all have similar ideas. The need to create.