I think I've asked this before, but I'll ask again before we run out of chances.
I know there's some folks here who've done it, so I want to ask: how do I get out of tech?
I don't think I want to be a developer anymore.
There's a chance my current employment might be ending very shortly, at which point I will need to find new work but ... I dunno where to start, what avenues might be open to someone with a technical background but increasingly little will to do dev work.
This job has been the most stressful of my entire career, and underpaid at that, and the industry itself seems to be spiraling a drain.
I have ten years of dev experience, I'm a damn good writer, a good speaker, OK game designer, even a trained actor, but I've struggled to find any way to turn any of these things into money besides cranking out code.
Thing is, I'm disabled and I've got a nasty case of long covid that shows no signs of improving, and physically I dunno how much longer I can do this work. I'm struggling as it is, and it feels like I'm spending all my spoons on the job, and so I end up with nothing left over for me.
I just don't know what to do with myself that'll keep the lights on, and the cost of living keeps going up.