Workers these days are quitting the Tech industry in droves. They are quitting their programmer or sysadmin job, or maybe just the startup world and i

The lengthy story of how I left the Tech industry and started washing miso jars — Conjure Utopia

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2024-10-09 12:00:05

Workers these days are quitting the Tech industry in droves. They are quitting their programmer or sysadmin job, or maybe just the startup world and its craziness. Some are quitting because of market conditions. Others because they are exhausted. Many more feel disillusioned by the empty promises of the Tech oligarchs, blasting their propaganda on Twitter and LinkedIn. Each one of us has different motivations and each story is different, so I wanted to add mine to the pile.

Change is always a result of an infinity of factors. I’m now free to do meaningful work in my daily life, but what brought me here and what allowed me to get here starts from afar. Many threads are woven together in each life, most of which we have no control over. I will try to share a few that I think are meaningful.

Let’s start from the very beginning. My first memory of being in front of a computer was when I was five years old: it was an AMIGA 500, and I was probably playing The Settlers, which my father bought for himself. My destiny at that point was sealed, or so I thought for a long time. I was going to be the nerdy computer guy. I was living in the countryside, 15km away from town, and while I had classmates and friends there, most of my time was spent indoors, in front of the screen.