The perfect way to round out your career

It's an older meme sir, but it checks out.
- I was going to clear them

Oldie but a goodie
- if /dev/null is fast in webscale I will use it. Is it webscale ?
  
  Haha, thanks for sharing

I actually know someone like this. He's been in software engineering since the early 2000. I recently saw a post from him that he's now a firefighter recruit.

I’ve been in tech since 2005 and I wish I had the means to bail like that. I’ve honestly considered taking a fat pay cut and going back to driving a forklift.
- I know that feel. Tech jobs are so mentally exhausting that you begin to wish for a job where your brain can finally get some rest :/
- I started in 2006 web design & development, worked till 2019 when my company dissolved, 5 months before the pandemic.
  
  I moved out of the city and I’m fixing rusty old cars for peanuts. It’s nice, but can still be stressful. Just in a totally different way.
My friend was a pretty accomplished academic. Nothing like a mad genius or anything, but pretty excellent and capable. Wasn’t down with the rat-racey pressure to publish and oversell ideas. Left it all to go live in a small farm town. Last time we talked he seemed happy but it wasn’t the easy and smooth path of academia -> farm town, it was actually academia -> enormous existential crisis -> farm town.

Goose Farmer - Remote

I would definitely go for Irish sheep farmer. You get to live in a cute little house in a green pasture by the seaside and the sheep feed themselves. What do you need to do? Sheer them every once and a while? I'd take that over Terraform any day of the week.

Terraform the earth to grow plants, not AWS.

I can see how decades of working at Microsoft can turn someone into a goose farmer. I've been using their products for decades and some days I never want to see their products again.

I actually had a coworker who bought a 100 year old house and turned it into a homestead before quitting software. I think he was on to something.

Been a developer for 20 years and the temptation to quit and be a stay-at-home Dad is really tempting if it was at all financially viable.

What's your fowl stack?

This person was building up relevant experience to earn that goose farmer promotion by moving to Chehalis, WA.

he had that waking up moment

I've threatened more than once that I was going to quit and take up potato farming. Potatoes are good. 👍

Farming implies growing crops. Ranching implies raising livestock.

Dude is actually a "Goose Rancher", unless he also grows both crops as well a tend livestock, then I have no idea.

Mmm maybe regional I’d definitely refer to sheep or cattle farms and farmers etc
- I've certainly never heard of a chicken ranch, but plenty of chicken farms.
Instructions unclear. Watering gooses. Edit: (yes, I know)

The goat pastures call to us all.