[bijant]

Same though I'm sadly not qualified for plumbing and had spent a lot of money for plumbing issues. Is that how you got into the business ? Your Profile states that you are "just another programmer". This is BTW what I love about HN, intelligent people from all walks of life, South American Neuroscientists, Pakistani Particle Physicists, Australian Professors of European Philosophy, Chinese Poets, NY Musicians designing their own Guitar pedals, Radical GNU/OS Evangelists from Kazakhstan commingling with Italian Plumbers and Nevada Hippies that worship the Sun Gods by running their website on the power that the heavens giveth.

[burjui]

My dad is a plumber, and I learned a bit while working with him. I was in software development for about 8 years, intermittently (casual games and microcontrollers in C++, Java/Kotlin for Android), and at the last job (the Android one) I burnt out so bad I got clinical depression which took years to manage. Plumbing to me is a fallback that is going on for too long. Pays the bills and meds until I get fit for demanding mental work. By the way, my lower back is demanding some mental work, for a change, after 3 weeks of carving out grooves for pipes in walls and floors with a big perforator