Ask HN: Have you ever thought of leaving programming for something else?
I think about leaving programming every day. I love programming, but I&#x27;m not sure I enjoy software development as a career.<p>I enjoy coding and understanding how computer systems work, but I don&#x27;t care for the constant changes in tools and techniques in certain domains of development. I&#x27;d rather practise with and improve my existing knowledge of a subject, instead of constantly playing catch-up with someone else&#x27;s tools and workflow. I also don&#x27;t care about waterfall, agile, scrum, kanban, scrumban or any other development methodology that I&#x27;ve missed. I hate that my job has me chained to a desk (sitting or standing) instead of being able to use my body. All of this makes me think that real-world software development doesn&#x27;t really suit me.<p>I&#x27;m about six weeks into a new job after leaving a company I worked at for just over five years. Amongst many other reasons for leaving, I thought that a new environment would change how I felt about continuing a career in software development, but I&#x27;m not sure that it has. I&#x27;m aware of how lucky programmers have it, but I can&#x27;t help feeling like I just want something else. Grass is always greener, etc.<p>What are the career options that allow one to work mostly by oneself in one-to-two week stretches without having to play the development workflow game with the daily standups and so on?<p>Sadly I&#x27;m not sure what I&#x27;d do if not programming, but music is a big interest and I&#x27;d considered teaching music.<p>tl;dr Woe is me ;)