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Tina Huynh
Tina Huynh

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If you weren't a software developer, then what?

What is your "what if" plan? What is your "back-up" career? your "lifeline" if software engineering somehow wasn't an option anymore for you?

Maybe one day, you decided you didn't want this lifestyle anymore? That you wanted something different...that you no longer loved creating online as much as you used to, etc. Then what?

Happy coding!

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Tina Huynh

what does TTRPG GM stand for?

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Ángel Guerrero

No plan, there was not option.

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Tina Huynh

No backdoor? LOVE IT

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Dimitar Stoev

I would love to be part of a creative studio that produces animations.

3D modeling and bringing 3D worlds alive seems an exciting opportunity!

That is probably the career I would most probably choose.

What is your second option? What would you do?

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Vic

I'm not a software dev, but probably I'm going to so if I need to choose another it would be translation and interpretation

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Rense Bakker

If I can't be a software developer any longer, I'm just going to enjoy my software developer moneys for a few years and hopefully I will have come up with something else I want to do, by the time the moneys run out 😜

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mcanam

I have a side project as a graphic designer, maybe I'll make it a single branch 😂

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Kaiz Khatri

I'll open 🍕 shop.

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Tina Huynh

Love the entrepreneur mindset :D

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twirp

I'd become a Photographer. For consistent income, I'd also be a Barista.

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Tina Huynh

self-made photographer or trained?

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twirp

A bit of both. I've done coursework and second shooting.

Most of what I've done is classic or copying someone's style. I'm hoping to establish my own style.

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Chun Fei Lung

I'd be a train driver who makes stupid announcements with jingles and fun facts at every station.

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Andrew Baisden

Maybe a designer, animator, writer, content creator or artist.