[jeffsaracco]

I'd be a baker - I've recently (as of the past year or two) started baking my own bread and find it incredibly therapeutic, fun and interesting. Maybe open up a small bakery with a cafe and if it went well expand it to teach classes on how to make bread, pizza, etc...

If anyone is also interested, I'd recommend the book Flour Water Salt Yeast (https://www.amazon.com/Flour-Water-Salt-Yeast-Fundamentals/d...) as a starting point

[muraiki]

If you are really considering this, I recommend that you first see if you can volunteer a bit at a local bakery. I also was considering a career change to becoming a baker. I knew someone who worked at a fairly large yet still artisan bakery (their brick oven was built by some specialists who came from France). He let me come work for a day to see what it's like. I quickly realized that as much as I love bread, I'd get bored doing relatively the same thing every day. I think that it's also a life where you can't easily take time off, which depending on your current situation in tech may not be much of a difference. :)

[fusiongyro]

Love that book! Just got Bread Baker's Apprentice too.

With you completely. My 10-year-old niece is on-board, telling me about how we're going to do this next week. I'm pretty sure I'd miss programming too much though.

[fjdlwlv]

Opening a bakery would destroy all the pleasure you get from baking

[smoyer]

Read the E-Myth Revisited: https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-About...

[fusiongyro]

They said that about programming but I still enjoy it.