Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?

  • Posted 4 days ago by throwaway_30yo
  • 31 points
After being let go from a small agency due to financial reasons, I find myself having at least 6-10 months of downtime for the first time in 10 years.

I am around 30 and feel burnt out from my tech career. I do not feel any interest or happiness towards building things right now. I chose this career mostly due to monetary reasons and pursued undergrad and graduate degrees in CS in Europe. After which, I worked as a product manager for a while in the networking/telco sector in internal enterprise systems.

I am really at a loss for what to do now or how to spend time. I was always interested in doing my own thing, but would not call myself a good engineer or as having deep skills in a particular domain. I am more of a jack of all trades.

I dread just getting the next job and continuing the corporate grind, but I really worry about what to do in the near future career-wise. If you were in my position, what would you do with the time?

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