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by mod 3051 days ago
I owned a brick & mortar business and decided I couldn't keep doing it. The particular type of business has a late-night lifestyle attached to it, and a crowd that I felt was "bringing me down."

I left the business (I'm still a silent partner) and took a web development job. I had been building my own websites & things for about a decade by then, but had no professional experience.

I'm 5 or 6 years in now and getting bored with it. The bulk of the learning is over.

My life has been a series of big changes and disparate job-types, and it feels like another one is on the horizon. I sometimes lament not being the best-in-class in almost any discipline, but I find that I'm adequate or above-average in a great many things and there's maybe some comfort to be had in that.