Comment by teiferer
6 days ago
I hear you man. Didn't intend to paint a rosy image of hard working landscapers. What I meant was do it more like a hobby that pays a little on the side. Doesn't have to be much, just pay some bills and let me do sth I like. Cause supervising a bunch of immature LLM agents is not something I'll like to do all day, I'd rather trim trees and plant flowers on the cheap.
I'm all for it but maybe with caution.
I bailed out of a FAANG job to cook in restaurants in the Bay Area and it was very double-edged. I gave up after a year for a variety of reasons.
The actual work was definitely more enjoyable.
"Paying the bills", on the other hand, actually took a lot of money (and I had a laughably small mortgage and two people sharing it at the time).
I also worked way more hours (30-40% of which were unpaid because yay fine dining), and it was physically way more brutal.
But then again, almost 10 years later, I'm back to the idea of opening a place of my own because the current tech landscape really doesn't attract me at all anymore and I can't get myself to last in it.