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Yeah. I'm done. My five year plan is to open a bakery. If I'm gonna slave away, might as well be for my own sake.

Well at least it's not farming this time. People have no idea how hard some of these careers they want to switch to are.

(Note: not a dig at you per se, more the "I'm going to become a farmer" people because they can keep a monsterra alive)

And even funnier for those of us that work in ag tech and know that the money in farming these days is in big business farming, run at scales far larger than traditional single family operations.

I often joke about building a cabin in the woods where I don't even have an address, I'd have to send you coordinates.

I always hope the story is just far fetched enough nobody thinks it's an actual plan, but I'm not sure.

I have no intention of spending the rest of my life chopping firewood and hunting whatever I can find in these woods. It's an amazing fantasy (because it's short term) after dealing with a bunch of BS all week though.

That fantasy is really fun for about 2 weeks a year. After that you realize how bad it is. I used volunteer to run the food stand at a local annual event for a charity to get my going into the restaurant fix out of my system (I quit only because I moved for other reasons)

I envy those with a solid plan to get out. I feel age is going to start to count against me and my passion for programming is dead. But I can’t deny the compensation in this career is great, which makes me not want to move on, for now

I'm just glad I started contributing to my retirement plan before that happened. I can't afford to retire yet - but it looks like I'm well on my way to retiring early. Which is the ultimate out: If I don't like what I'm doing I can find a new hobby, then when that one gets boring either another or go back to a previous. (note that sitting around and doing nothing isn't in my plan)

I truly hope you succeed. However I program because I can't stand to do the same thing over and over again. I want to automate away the monotony. Running a bakery seems like it's everything I don't want to do. You have to make the same products the same way every day. It's good work and I know a lot of people for who that's their dream. It's interesting that you went into programming first and then go into something that I perceive to be the opposite. Best of luck.

I agree. But this is just out of curiosity, what about jobs that don't have repetitive tasks and don't feel like coding, after you've spent enough time on coding. For example, business manager.

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