What happened after I left my software engineering career (2022)
This is not quite related to the article but it struck a chord.<p>I started losing weight around  a year and a half ago. I lost around 68kg, or 149 pounds.<p>I’ve been surfing almost every day for a year now.<p>I also took some time off work and almost no social media use.<p>It’s pretty amazing how one feels like the “typical” obese programmer with a stressful job and how you can actually feel.<p>If you’re financially stable enough, I can’t recommend enough to take some time off and take care of yourself, you probably don’t know how bad it feels right now and you probably don’t know how good you can feel if you’re anything like me.<p>I basically haven’t touched a computer since December, and I’m not sure how it will be to go back, I miss some things about programming and I’m considering different challenges to keep that part of my brain active but that allows me to keep surfing daily.<p>Don’t be afraid of the other side is my only point, it’s truly life and perspective changing.<p>Edit: btw, if anyone has any ideas of how to work very few hours a week as a pretty decent full stack web dev without too high of a financial aspirations, I’m all ears, people seem too look for all or nothing employees only.