I’ve worked in SW for 13 years now and I’ve amassed a nice nest egg of $2.5M NW from my work. I’m extremely blessed to be where I am but I’ve lately tired of the industry. I can’t take the daily stand ups, weekly planning sessions, constant code reviews year after year. I personally want to have a more relaxed job that gives me the PTO to travel often and work from anywhere in the world. But I don’t mean just 20 PTO days a year. That’s far too few. I want something closer to 60/70 days a year. Or at least a job has working hours making it easy to take weeks off at a time (when I want to). I don’t mind taking a pay cut. In fact I’d happily take a 50% pay cut just to work 25% fewer days. That’s because my time is much more valuable to me than money at this point. However I don’t want to just take a sabbatical because I do still want to have purpose. It’s nice to have a job (even just a part time one) for the social connection, sense of purpose, health insurance, and at least partial income. As I said I’m a senior SE who’s worked in FAANG for 8 years in total and bring a lot of skills to the table. What type of career would allow me to work with many periods of breaks/PTO and would support flexibility but would still be somewhat within our SWE industry? Current Tc: $450K
You could become a teacher or give talks.
Contract, freelance, working for a European company
Just find a remote job you can do the days work in like 3 hrs and chill
I've had a bunch of contractors like this before. One dude was a beekeeper 6 months out of the year. You need decent contacts though to avoid spending a lot of time finding gigs.
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Maybe look into being a contractor. Take small contracts.
I heard contractor work can be pretty ruthless… and not pay that well.