Living the literal dream. Every software engineers fantasy is to be an artisan carpenter.
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2026
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Not true, some of them want to raise goats.
Is this is reference to the Microsoft guy's LinkedIn meme? This one: https://programmerhumor.io/microsoft-memes/peak-programmer-career-trajectory-lntk
Personally, I want to make historical reproductions of early 1900s fountain pens but with modern materials. Moore's non-leakable in chased ultem, my white whale...
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I'm in biotech and my wife and I keep talking about quitting our jobs and opening a meadery.
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i once took over a consultancy gig at a high-tech optical lab. when me and the guy i was replacing were leaving on the last day of the handover i asked just conversationally where he was going next, and he told me he was going back to school to be a painter. guy was in his mid-50s.
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The AI-related bullshit definitely sucks the fun out of programming, but carpenters still have to deal with customers...
The shop teacher at my school actually did lose a couple of fingers to a table saw (not at school). Like right after he retired, too.
Ours got his tie caught in a belt sander. If it wasn't for a quick thinking kid who pulled the cord...
He did get some chin sanding in, which is nice.
wearing a tie in a workshop is mental 🤮
Those teachers wore ties in my school... They were clip-on for exactly this reason.
I almost got kicked out of university for what they taught me in highschool 😂 turns out safety protocol is actually super important 🤯
Still, so obstinate. Like whyyy
Wearing a tie in a workshop is like pointing a gun at other people at the shooting range. Never do it unless you want bad things to happen.
I bet he switched to bowties after that!
He did not. He made learning exciting though.
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I'm going into plumbing. I'm done with this shit.
Shit is my shit now, and it's much nicer.
Tree trimming, welding, and camper van conversions for me, when it becomes necessary
I work in Automation/Controls and i spend most of my day pretending like i don't really know what I'm doing but amazingly enough getting it right on the first 1-3 tries while also accidentally fixing something else.
It's honest work.
Literally me soon because of AI