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> Now I'm a truck driver. […] I actually kinda miss fiddling.

What did you do before and why did you become a truck driver, if I may ask?

Originally SW dev, most recently SWQA. I rage quit my last job over a conflict with a dev manager. No one else was interested in me.

Been driving three years and change. I mostly like it. I've never had a meeting, standup or otherwise. I miss my couch, weekends and the money. But it's pretty low stress. No SO, and my son is grown.

Wow, that's quite a career change! Thanks for the insight!

Personally, the one thing that saved me from going crazy during the pandemic were precisely those standup meetings (via Zoom) – otherwise I probably wouldn't have had any human interaction for months. But I suppose it all depends on who your colleagues are.

You don't have family or friends to talk to?

Yes, I do. But I happened to be in a rather lonely place (geographically) right when the pandemic hit. So outside of Zoom and telephone calls with my family and friends every other night, I wouldn't really have talked to anyone, had it not been for work.

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