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i was out of the tech industry for a while being a bum. for a while i was working in restaurants (nothing high end), and while the work wasn’t anything remarkable i always called it “honest work”. sweat for money. making tangible things and handing it to a customer feels a lot less alienating than deploying an update for users.
Similar; been programming for long time, but sometimes have breaks ( was fired, laid off, stuck in small town with small kids, etc).
And I did everything from Taco Bell, to driving big rigs, to laborer doing demolition, to prison guard.
And it just felt so good to not sit at a desk, I think in some ways coding is a very unhealthy lifestyle