Title: To sum it up quickly<p>Living in Iran<p>38yo&#x2F;married&#x2F;no kids<p>University drop out<p>Burnt out developer because employer asks you to finish the job quicker and quicker and then throws more work at you without any perks&#x2F;changes to your salary<p>Have been working as a bookkeeper&#x2F;sort of an accountant for 5 years<p>No savings&#x2F;hard to save much when your salary is 350USD&#x2F;mo<p>My wife has a masters degree in accounting and a good resume<p>Good skills in Vanilla JS&#x2F;HTML&#x2F;CSS<p>Viable skills in C#&#x2F;T-SQL&#x2F;a lot more<p>No resumes<p>Planning to migrate to Europe&#x2F;US&#x2F;Australia in next 5 years because Iran is on edge of economic&#x2F;social&#x2F;life-basics collapse.<p>1. My main question is: Can I work as a developer and not be under pressure every minute?<p>2. If I get hired as a developer, can I have a life outside my work or I&#x27;m gonna have to learn the new hipster framework after work hours for the rest of my life?<p>3. Is it worth cutting my salary by 2 days a week to work on open source projects to build up a resume?<p>4. I&#x27;m fine learning say, COBOL. Should I go that way?<p>5. Am I better looking for other jobs?<p>6. Any advices?<p>P.s I don&#x27;t think I can do paid remote work for foreign countries until I get a second passport since Iran is sanctioned and I probably can&#x27;t have a bank account in western countries.
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