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Simple job or well paid career? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have two options now. Working in a simple not well paid job i am trained in or continue working in IT. I would leave coding and switching to Helpdesk in IT since I burned out as a programmer. I believe the tech industry propaganda brought me to programming so I left the simple job I'm thinking going back to again.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

To quote the great philosopher Homer Simpson: "Money can be used to buy goods and services"

So depends what kind of simple you want. Money does solve many problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you feel like you were passionate about programming? The great thing about programming is that you an always work on free time hobby projects for a very low cost. And I feel like programming is a job where you can jump back in whenever if you have a repository to show for it.

I'd personally say you don't need to worry about losing the career if you want to hop onto a simpler job for awhile to work on yourself!

[–] readwallah 3 points 1 year ago

I concur. It's not worth it to burn out. Keep up your programming chops on the side and it you want to come back, you have a repo to show future employers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's not worth it if you can't enjoy the extra pay. Put health first, career second.