[marcus_holmes]

I had an "alternative" start to my coding career. Before that, I worked all sorts of different unskilled jobs. In one of them, warehouse picking in a supermarket chain, I met a guy who had burned out of tech (and this was ~1990). I couldn't believe that someone who had a career writing code, working for IBM, all of that, would just walk away from it to become a warehouse picker.

30 years later, after ~25 years in tech and a major clinical depression, I totally understand why he did that. He seemed happy, too.