[the_only_law]

> I'm looking at leaving tech.

I was planning on leaving tech before the layoff. In fact, I was hoping to use my last job to fund my education in something else, and then had to piss away my savings while out of work. I was telling people at the time that that was the last job I ever planned on working in software.

Now I’m very close to just resigning and accepting I’ll never get out.

[coldbrewed]

I relate to this. Golden handcuffs seem great until you're trapped in an expensive mortgage in a HCOL city in a career that you despise.

If you want out, I'd strongly encourage you to start investing in that education now. Working a day job and taking night classes is challenging but it'll start building a foundation to exit -- or at least provide some novelty. I took my severance and put it into an accelerated EMT program which is giving me some badly needed routes forward.

Regardless, I wish you the best of luck no matter where you go. Sometimes we just need to pay the bills for a few years and figure out next steps.

[bhag2066]

I'm trying to decide whether there is a real good opportunity to learn in that. If you are working full time and going to night school one night a week, and you don't feel excited on the day you have night school - you've chosen the wrong field to retrain in and will likely end up in the same place. Important information