Ask HN: Those who quit tech, moved back home, what do you do?

[akudha]

Especially those who quit tech and went back from western countries to their (non-western) homeland, what do you do now? Are you happier than before? What are the reasons you left?

[codingrightnow]

I quit software, though I never made it very far in it it was my profession for 16 years. I'm a corrections officer now. My new career is drastically less stressful.

[PenguinCoder]

Interesting. I was a LEO, moved gradually into infosec. I think the stresses are different, but LEO was way more actively stressful.

[DANmode]

I want to believe.

What state?

[sometimes_all]

I didn't exactly quit tech: I quit big tech and moved back home. Now I freelance, and I'm happier than I've ever been.

There's a certain joy to being with family in an environment everyone is familiar with and has a history in, which no kind of emigration can replicate.

[subpixel]

I like to imagine that they also quit reloading this domain.