Ask HN: Developers who switched careers, what are you doing now?
I&#x27;ve been a full time dev since 2000 – 22 years.<p>Right now I&#x27;m in training for ordained ministry in a Christian denomination. I came back into regular church worship a few years ago, and then started studying theology through my diocese and found I loved it. Now I&#x27;m close to completing a Masters of Divinity at university, and I&#x27;m in my third year of training at theological college.<p>Software skills have been much more useful to all of this than you might think. In the church the idea of &#x27;calling&#x27; has a particular prominence; sort of doing those things that you find rewarding, that you have the skills and aptitude for, and that also help others – God is seen to be in all of that, too.<p>It took a while but at a certain point I just realised that while I&#x27;m really good at software, it&#x27;s not the other two things for me. It&#x27;s a funny thing to let it go, slowly, and if I am ordained I think it&#x27;ll be my equivalent of playing with train sets in the garage.<p>I guess what I&#x27;d take from all of this is that even in a secular sense, we&#x27;re always learning about ourselves, and it&#x27;s never too late to be brave and explore something new.