DuckDuckGoose

alas, many of us will never reach goose-farm level success

This isn't a shit post, its the truth

Our previous CTO left by saying "I have enough money now. Peace out!"

I feel like the progression of my "Programming shelf" says a lot about my career trajectory as well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40726974

That's what a year of being a software architect does to you.

Yeah, after 22 years at Microsoft in a senior position, you should be able to retire and do whatever the fuck you want as a hobby. I very highly doubt this guy will ever make significant money from goose farming.

I’m a senior/principal engineer with 20+ years of experience and I can’t even think about retiring any time soon. All the posts in this thread are making me super sad. And the posted salary numbers are way higher than mine. :(

I'd way rather be a duck farmer. Geese are noisy little bastards.

Might be one of the few times a Lemmy post related to me.

I have owned a farm for four years, and do engineering for fun. AMA

To have such a good career payout that you don’t need a career.

Honestly jealous

Okay, thats the response for rich people. Whats the offer for less rich who would like to "disconnect from the system"?

We have a principal software engineer who is a part-time farmer. He has chickens and cows.

I quit my 20+ year career as a sysadmin about 2 years ago and started turning my backyard into a massive garden. I'm currently trying to figure out places to sell large quantities of hot peppers and I'm about to start selling matted and framed photos of flowers and wildlife from my garden.

Fuck IT.

i'm a data analyst. there's an urge to say fuck this shit and start a brewery. That urge is there every single day.

You should say "This is how something looks" or "This is what something looks like", but don't put the "how" and the "like" in the same statement.

That is not how it should look like.

I worked in IT for 20 years. I became a handyman and have 7 geese.

I have taken a half step in this direction and it’s improved my life greatly.

I still have a normal job, but my Covid project back in 2020 was to finally put a koi pond in my back yard. I spend way more time learning and thinking about it than keeping up on tech shit. And the job I have now is great - I’m not trying to escape from it or anything.

The best part is that even the guy I bought my recent koi from has a microbiology degree. He’s properly living the “x farmer” dream, but that “job” is much more than a 9-5.

The Venn diagram overlap of senior+ programmers and farmers is oddly large

I feel like we are all agreeing here

Not in computers. I'm an accountant. I don't have enough money to throw the double middle fingers. Can somebody please, for the love of all that's holy, show me the way out or, you know, come sneak onto my property when I'm not looking and delete me?

Edit: JUST now, I got told that I'm unprofessional because I refuse to give my personal cell phone number to all three thousand of our clients. I said that my private phone funded by my personal money is not a business asset and they can give me a company phone if they want me texting clients. This was met with a huff, turning of a back on me, and storming off.

Yes, with AI anything is possible!

Isn't this Jeremy Clarkson's career path, more or less?

We found John Stardew!?

Damn it! It's Duck, Duck, Grey Duck! NOT goose!

***A Minnesotan argues about the important stuff

• rake in the lake

I'm sincerely envy. I wish I could do the same.

20+ years at M$ sounds like hell on earth. Might be better for mankind to work for 20 years at an oil company ffs