I hear you man. Didn't intend to paint a rosy image of hard working landscapers. What I meant was do it more like a hobby that pays a little on the side. Doesn't have to be much, just pay some bills and let me do sth I like. Cause supervising a bunch of immature LLM agents is not something I'll like to do all day, I'd rather trim trees and plant flowers on the cheap.
I bailed out of a FAANG job to cook in restaurants in the Bay Area and it was very double-edged. I gave up after a year for a variety of reasons.
The actual work was definitely more enjoyable.
"Paying the bills", on the other hand, actually took a lot of money (and I had a laughably small mortgage and two people sharing it at the time).
I also worked way more hours (30-40% of which were unpaid because yay fine dining), and it was physically way more brutal.
But then again, almost 10 years later, I'm back to the idea of opening a place of my own because the current tech landscape really doesn't attract me at all anymore and I can't get myself to last in it.
