Title: I dont hate programming per say, but I hate everything that comes with the job. I hate the work, developers, the culture among developer teams. I also despise the leetcode interview. I know that good DS&#x2F;A skills are important. I know why they exist and are so popular. I know that there are plenty of jobs that don&#x27;t use them (but the reality is that the best paying and most interesting do). But at end of the day, I&#x27;d rather spend my time learning and working on cool projects than boring myself on some algo site so that I can compete with a bunch a quasi-competive programmers.<p>All that said, I still do enjoy programming and work on a number of cool projects for myself. I&#x27;ve started to wonder if I should do something else for a living and relegate programming a hobby I can still enjoy on the side.<p>There are plenty of stories of people going from programmer to some business position, whether that be management, sales, BA, etc., but I&#x27;m not really interested in any of that stuff. In fact, I think I would hate that more than programming. I&#x27;ve been interested in other fields since a kid, programming just won because of accessibility reasons. I&#x27;ve always enjoyed natural sciences (through school, I struggled in math, hated language arts classes, but always excelled in science). I also contemplated a couple going into a other engineering fields as a teen that I&#x27;ve retained an interest in. There are also some IT domains that look interesting (honestly I&#x27;d probably be a better network engineer that software engineer), but I don&#x27;t think I could stomach starting at the bottom of that field. I expect a pay cut if I switch fields, but entry-level IT pays pennies.<p>I dont think I&#x27;ve ever heard of anyone doing anything like this. Googling only shows people doing the opposite going from <i>X</i> to software development. Everyone wants to be a programmer these days. Maybe it&#x27;s the money and prestige.<p>Has anyone made a transition from software to some other technical field?
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