okasion :archlinux: on Nostr: Richard Carroll I hope I can soon say the same as you my friend, although with a big ...

Richard Carroll (nprofile…le9r) I hope I can soon say the same as you my friend, although with a big difference.

I worked all my life in IT, since I was 19 years old making webpages and programs in Visual Basic 6 for the hotel my dad worked in.

On January of this year I got laid off.

After learning most AWS and in particular Kubernetes, deeply, what I'm trying to say is, including super high degrees of auditory and security levels, due to in all my searches getting an offer from the treasury of the US to work for them and they asking for Linux audit FedRAMP level (I had no idea what those words meant), training weeks non stop on all this, learning more in a span of 4-5 months what I would learn in, IDK, in 2~ years, while non stop pushing useful projects to my github (github.com/leokasion) thinking that would really impact my chances of getting higher chances on websites like LinkedIn or Indeed, having literally around 15-20 interviews via Meet, MS Teams, and/or Zoom in 4-5 months, *breathes*, as you, I realized thanks to a friend from literally this board that I don't want to work anymore in corporate IT -nor in IT at all.
I still enjoy coding and developing for me, for the projects I enjoy advance little by little, some OpenGL here, some GameMaker there, some Java for a mobile app here.
But here's what I differ from you, I'm at an age that I know what I like, what I hate, and what I love. I want to try different things. Try to get into some type of work that demands some degree of physical labor; like working in a bakery, or as private security guard, anything I can get -and I have to hurry because I'm at the age limit to get those jobs. My physical health is perfect, but after you're 40 years old, it's though to start from scratch, specially in a job you don't know, which for me are all of them except IT.

If you left corporate IT, you know as well as I, how poisoned that well is, that the current way industry manages things it's unsustainable and even many more jobs will get lost. And the funny thing is, mostly not because AI.
I know exactly what you said. I wanted to explain my current situation in this thread, too.

And when I say I would love getting a job as a librarian, I imagine that would be the case since I was little I never had many friends, and books and videogames had to do. From printing the OpenGL Red book manual to read in the roof of my house at 14 years old, to read Meditations on the tablet in the little couch of my apartment nowadays. I love books (in all forms), and because of my younger cousins and other younger people I know from internet, I can see how new generations mostly don't like don't to read -which is a trend which I think will get back to baseline, and realize the satisfaction of being part of a friendship only via pen pals.

Last but not least, sorry for how much I extended this post.