I want 5 more years. That’s all.
I really hate what this industry has become.
… retirement?
I thought we were just gonna lose our jobs and be societally murdered instead.
It’s never been a better time to cash out those 401ks full of tech stocks.
Well, maybe six months ago. Or pretty much any time before March.
DOW is back over 51k. That means everything is good and nobody is allowed to complain.
Yeah 30 years at Microsoft, with bonus and stock options etc can give you retirement at 55yo, but all the others programmers like me that went through some companies (that where bought by bigger one and stripped out), forget it, it will be 65yo or more.
Dammit, they’re gonna buy up all the remote small farms.
quote: “Otteson and his wife plan to sell their home in Redmond and move somewhere with lower costs of living, such as Vancouver, Wash., or Hillsboro, Oregon”.
Not surprised one bit as this has been an ongoing trend for techies in the SF Bay area to Seattle for decades.
It’ll be less a problem with small offgrid farms and more an issue for rural to suburban areas with full utilities because most of these people have no clue how to farm.
As someone who has never farmed, I don’t understand why people think they’ll retire through farming, arguably one of the most back breaking jobs with least pay to produce stuff that costs the least out of anything… And is due to become more and more difficult as climate change gets complex.
This is not the type of manual labor you want to learn how to do and invest in as you’re older?
But yeah maybe managing some chickens and an herb farm, whatever that’s not a big deal. I just would expect to only be supplementing what groceries you buy as a hobby, not homesteading. Don’t get fucking acres of farmland that you won’t know how to use… Grow some rosemary and thyme, maybe potatoes. Fuck even one fruit tree is a lot of work. Try that out first. Potatoes! Try stuff you can do with a balcony first. Maybe a goat if you’re really wild.
But these are hobbies, not retirement income.
I assume people just mean having a small garden maybe a few chickens not full blown farming.
Depending who we are talking about, good riddance.
Will be missed- The jaded technical guy who has 3 decades of institutional knowledge and can sight read machine code like its the Matrix.
Won’t be missed- The middle management corpo-speak fat fuck with turkey waddle jowls, spouting the latest efficiency reminders from his SVP (so he hits his own compensation-linked performance targets) while struggling to find the right button to screenshare on the Teams call.
The first group is leaving, they do not want to teach AI
I’m only 41 and I’m tapping out too
I’m just about your age and have been in IT for a long time… I feel pretty done with it and just need 918 more days until I’m fully vested for retirement. Granted I cannot afford to retire at all but I grew up in abandoned houses, literally poor enough that I didn’t attend school as that just caused a stream of visits from child services so I’m hoping to be able to buy a piece of property when we sell our house.
I know I’m in a “better” place than I was growing up but I don’t know how many more 3 hour meetings with Microsoft engineers where they give me AI slop I can stand.
Hang in there if you can! Sounds like you have made a lot of progress since youth. It’s hard out here. Take care.
Yeah also early 40s. Hoped to retire in 3 - 4 years or so based on my finances but it’s getting harder and harder to stick it out.
Retiring? Or changing careers?
I don’t think I can retire right now. I hope you are doing better than I.
I’m doing sales rn, we’ll see how it goes
