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by stunthamsterio 3513 days ago
Writing. I love writing, I've published a couple of technical manuals and I'm currently submitting to various short story anthologies whilst working on another (Self published) manual. Writing leaves me happy and fulfilled and generally free of stress.

Trouble is, it does not pay the bills. I'm currently working very hard to pay off all my debt and once that's done I'll be taking up writing full time and leaving the tech industry behind.

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Share what you've written! Hats off to you. Can't quite make that kind of leap myself, but trying to get a body of work made up for business and pleasure.
The two technical manuals are Puppet Reporting and Monitoring, and the DevOps automation cookbook. I had fun writing the puppet book, but the second was for various reasons not as fun to write. That being said, it was still more enjoyable than my day job!