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📣 mactavish88

Anyone pivoted from SWE/mgmt to a different career in your 30/40s+?


Having been coding for nearly 25 years now and being in engineering management for the past couple of years (still actively coding 30-50% of my time), I'm feeling increasingly tired of tech. Software development, more specifically. I'm quite capable of both producing software myself _and_ managing teams producing software.

Have you pivoted from software engineering/engineering management into a different career altogether in your 30s, 40s or beyond? I'm keen to hear your story, and perhaps glean some ideas/suggestions.

I'm more than happy to go back to school or do training courses part-time to learn whatever I need to.

  👤 blowsand Accepted Answer ✓
Similar background and weariness with tech, but I’m a bit older, and I’ve actually left and returned to tech a couple times.

A question I’d ask you is, are there other things that really call out to you? If you could do anything as a career, or at least in a phase of your career, do you have deeply felt answers?

I’ve made the “anything but tech” move before and regretted it after a period of decompression and perspective reset.