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Discussion on: Is anyone planning a full or partial "early retirement" from software development?

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ferceg

I love programming/coding/creating interesting/useful/useless things, learning new technologies, languages etc. Been doing it for ~30 years now, but I'm quite tired of "developing".
Real intellectual challenges are rare, usually come down to "how to implement this feature in this badly designed software X without breaking Y, Z, W".
So there are plans but right now, without reality anytime in the near future.

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Laci Kosco

I totaly see/feel the pain of missing real intellectual challenges. I would like to spend some time to create something useful in Common Lisp, on my own. I’ve tried the own business 2 times, but it did not go well. Currently I’m at big enterprise, but doing pioneer work so it is quite ok, and the priority is to keep family financially safe. Yet i still dream for my own gig, passion project later in the future. It should earn enough to keep family safe, yet it would be nice to require significantly less that full week of work. I love challenges, so not really planing to abandon dev. More likely to keep dev work as passion