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People who are 30+, what career moves do you regret in your 20s and/or what choices are you happy you made? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/cs_career_questions

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

After university, I was a volunteer teacher in Africa for 3 years. Then I went and taught English in Japan, and after that started working as a software developer.

If I had stayed in Canada and gone straight into a typical chemical engineering job, I would certainly be a lot better off in financial terms, but the whole reason I didn't go into it was because I found it soul crushing.

One of my engineering classmates went into theater production, another did a master's in English, and a third went to medical school. Clearly I wasn't the only one having misgivings.