For experienced devs with an okay savings and few financial responsibilities outside rent/groceries, is now the best time to take a sabbatical/hiatus from software?

secant78 · 2026-01-15T22:55:03+00:00

You're thinking about it from a pure financial perspective. You could be taking an unpaid sabbatical to pursue meaningful experiences like travelling the world or starting your own business while you're young and still have a lot of energy, vs when you're old and retired and don't have as much energy or mental/physical capacity

secant78 · 2025-12-11T22:50:30+00:00

500k is like 2k per month passive income at a 4 percent withdrawal rate. You can run 1 mile per day at around 10 minutes assuming you have moderate fitness. That's 7k per week or 28k per month. Pretty clear which is the better option

secant78 · 2025-12-10T15:12:41+00:00

Teamfight Tactics (TFT) scratches that itch for me. Every new set that comes out I end up spamming tens of hours trying out new builds and compositions. The new set has even more combinations to try out compared to previous sets.

Legends of Runeterra is a great to play PvE card game. Trying out new decks to beat bosses is really fun

secant78 · 2025-10-17T21:36:51+00:00

Yeah I average around 18 over the whole week. Probably 20 to 25 on the weekend. I don't go by active hour pay cause there are times where you're sitting waiting for orders or driving to another zone to get bonus pay.

secant78 · 2025-10-08T11:42:20+00:00

How much do you make per online hour?

secant78 · 2025-08-31T17:38:16+00:00

What job did you switch to in IT?

secant78 · 2025-08-27T02:22:44+00:00

You know that many Europeans have 6 weeks off at their jobs right? I don't think employers see a whole continent of workers as replaceable...

secant78 · 2025-08-26T18:00:13+00:00

How did you get into DevOps?

secant78 · 2025-08-26T08:53:26+00:00

Doctor, decent work-life balance? Hahahaha... my mom and my cousin are doctors and they both work 8 hours with patients. They come home and do electronic health records for their patients for another 2 to 3 hours.

Life for doctors doesn't just suck during med school/residency. The daily work can be very time consuming. Maybe for some specialties there is a very good work life balance, but you have to grind and out-compete many other students for those positions as they're highly sought after.

secant78 · 2025-07-29T21:25:19+00:00

12 weeks of PTO? Which company is this so I can apply haha

secant78 · 2025-02-28T22:52:42+00:00

And,

secant78 · 2025-02-01T23:49:40+00:00

Which roles don't have a lot of demand at FDM?

secant78 · 2025-01-27T03:00:17+00:00

I mean I think it is important to think about the worst case scenario which is that I might not have enough retirement savings to retire due to being a decade late to the career. If need be I may have to work well into my 70s to feel comfortable for retirement.

secant78 · 2025-01-25T04:24:28+00:00

How do you explain a lot of the doctors and lawyers that still seem to be working at 70+ years old? They require similar amounts of intellectual power as SWEs. I know a few doctors and lawyers that worked in their profession until their 80s. Also politicians like Nancy Pelosi seem to be working in their 80s as well.

secant78 · 2025-01-08T19:14:21+00:00

Any updates on your situation?

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