Title: I&#x27;ve been programming professionally for the better part of 7 years now, and can pretty confidently say I will not be doing that anymore. Worked in the bay area for a company and quit after a few years following a series of layoffs hitting my department. Then basically had two jobs where I only lasted for less than a year in each. Washed out.<p>Moved out of state and had two other jobs programming. The first didn&#x27;t have enough work to keep me around, and started the second. I just quit that one after 8 months. It is probably my last as a programmer, my resume just has too many red flags from a hiring perspective, and are probably right in their assumption, along with my wariness of the field as a whole.<p>My question is, how did you folks out there find another career? DJing a strip club, no joke, is not going to be a viable long term solution, and for the first time have _no_ clue what to do next. No debt, children or any serious obligations, only caveat would be lack of higher education, so I can entertain a bunch of options.<p>What did you do to start a new chapter? Not trying to drum up a pity party, just looking for fresh perspectives out there on stepping into the unknown.
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