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Ask HN: Those who changed industries from web dev, where did you go?

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After 10 years of web dev, I am a bit jaded with it. Want to do anything except web dev. Those who have made this switch what did you learn / end up in?

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I felt the same. During my last job search I decided to click on anything that looked like it wasn't "regular-old" web - no web tech companies, no agencies etc. I looked for different industries that needed (close to) my skill set.

I found a few interesting things - most weren't "right", but eventually I went to an interview where things were great: in mainframe computers! I've been there for a while and have been having a ball - learning a lot of new things, and glad for the change.

I've done a lot of different tech stuff, but cut my teeth in webdev.

Other things that I've done:

   * devops/cloud stuff
   * tech training
   * devrel
   * data analytics
   * mobile dev (esp if you use a toolkit like ionic, cordova or react native)

I did a year of server-side web dev from 2002-2003, then decided I wanted to do something different. I went back to grad school, got my Ph.D., and now I’m in high performance computing.

I was a front end Web developer during the beta days of react and webrtc.. Now I'm the CSO at a Renewable Energy company, we specialize in zero emission engines.

Hotel management.

Indie dev for VR apps and games.

Security.

A web dev friend of mine became a pentester after playing a fuck ton if hackthebox.eu

Those skills should synergise. You learn how to build the site and how to attack it.

Personally, knowing low level languages and systems programming (I met my girlfriend at a systems programming meetup) helped me learn how memory based exploits work.

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