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Possibly tangential, but this article and some of the discussion here reminded me of this HN thread from 2020: "Ask HN: Former software engineers, what are you doing now?" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23951850

A former boss of mine retired early once he decided he was done with the politics required to navigate his work. He fully unplugged from corporate life and got comfortable delving into his passions... cycling, woodworking (so much woodworking), etc. He seemed to be having a blast from what I could see. I recently caught up with him, and it turned out after about a year off, he'd just accepted a job at a fintech that his former boss reached out about. I guess for him it was time to go from that specific job but maybe not quite from engineering in general.