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Weird to read this, because I'm thinking of switching into software development.

But if I were going to switch into something else, it would probably be something involving the outdoors, with a tangible physical aspect to it. Surveying?




A colleague and good friend of mine was a surveyor before he went to college in CS. He said the surveying was very pleasant, but the job also involves a lot of driving.


Maybe we should focus on things worse than IT?

Like accounting...




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