I can understand software work can be tiring. But I can't imagine it being so tiring I'd rather do a factory job (maaaybe if it was a bread factory or lego factory or some such). How is it?
I'm not trying to sell anybody on it, but it was certainly the right choice for me. Maybe it's just that I'm, burned out, in my forties, and I would rather make widgets all day than learn another framework.
This contract working as an linux engineer bank only allows me to work 24 months without having to take three months off.
Working 15 years none stop since the age of 17, time to rest for a bit.
I hope to work in a old persons retirement home next year. So much wisdom and knowledge that year by year goes and is forgotten, I would love to hear past time stories.
From experience, counting small stock (10s of pieces) in a warehouse allowed me to zone out into a high fidelity mental landscape.
At one point I was doing my job and vividly hallucinating what I was going to do in dwarf fortress later that evening.
Honestly one of the trippiest experiences I’ve had and a sign that I should probably be applying my mental abilities to something else, which I did eventually.
There is a comedian who would tell a story, years ago, about how they knew they needed to move on from their job after they earned 'employee of the month' for three months in a row, without even trying.