Pretty heartbreaking to keep seeing more and more of the smartest tech people leaving the industry. It's been six months since I said I would leave, and I am looking at extension courses at a local college.
I wonder which will happen first. Will the bubble burst before everyone who cares has left the industry? Or is going to take too long and the only people left will be those who lost all critical thinking and practical skills to the slop machines?
It's a drag because I have invested 14 years of my life into this career, and it used to be something really fun. A challenge that I genuinely enjoyed. Now I get a stomach ache thinking about the future, and I have already taken actions to stop living like that.
I know this means I need to save up and pay for the extension course, and within the next year transition out of working in computer security and into something I actually care about. Something that AI won't be able to mess with. *fingers crossed*
I know this venture will make money, I just need to develop the skills to do it. My goal is to be my own boss. Do something small, just keep it to me for as long as I can.
Because once I get to the point of needing to hire people, I would like to sell that first company (probably an S corp or some kind of sole proprietorship) and create something new that is 100% profit sharing.
I'll find a couple of people to go in with me, all of us will have one job, and we'll split all the profits equally. We'll all put in an equal amount of money, and we'll each take away an equal amount. I'll find people who can do the biz side of things, and I can do the part that I like.
Or, I'll just try to make enough from the first biz that I can retire to write and maybe make adult documentaries, who knows?
I just need a plan, because what I am doing now ain't it!