I've got a friend who has done the same thing. He spent 30 years in the tech industry before getting laid off a few years ago. After fruitless efforts looking for another job programming he became a bus driver and is so much happier for it. Now he's a couple of years from retirement and getting a pension from the state.
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It's amazing what job you can afford to do after spending 20 years at Adobe
This has nothing to do with Adobe - the hiring market is super fucked for various reasons, most prominently and specifically due to AI. If you know, you know.
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This is a bit low on the onion scale, imho
The adobe name is so toxic that it's probably better to leave it off your CV, just say you were busy partying and doing drugs those years, people respect that more than they respect adobe
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Read somewhere this guy lived in some coastal town or island and he was either an ex tech worker who became a boat mechanic or knew one and I haven’t stopped thinking about ditching web dev and learning how to fix boats ever since
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I'm giving up tech to pursue a small business for myself. I'm sick of it lately
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I have had recurring thoughts about ditching tech and managing an orchard making and selling apple juice and cider....
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After 25 years at Adobe, he deserves a far worse fate.
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