[HN Gopher] Quitting Engineering to Pursue Art Full-Time
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Quitting Engineering to Pursue Art Full-Time
Author : Tomte
Score : 147 points
Date : 2024-04-27 10:26 UTC (3 days ago)
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| jncfhnb wrote:
| > In business theres a term called "Total Adressable Market," or
| TAM. This is basically everyone in the world who could buy a
| product in a given category. What's the TAM for a product like
| fishing rods? Well, that would be everyone in the world who likes
| fishing...
|
| > The reason we mention this is because when Pablo first started
| selling his art online, he created all his posts strictly in
| Spanish - his native language. Over time, he felt that this was
| limiting him, so he started making posts in both English and
| Spanish, and then eventually just English.
|
| The bit about cutting out Spanish entirely suggests this is not a
| lesson in maximizing one's TAM
| tsunamifury wrote:
| TAM vs ROI is a thing... obviously.
| choilive wrote:
| Yeah, it's more like min-max'ing your TAM. Minimize effort in
| areas that don't have any return and maximize the areas that
| do. Business 101.
| paulcole wrote:
| YC startup idea:
|
| AI generated-articles designed to give computer programmers
| dopamine hits when they get to correct a small
| error/issue/discrepancy.
|
| Like Zyns but distracting.
|
| Maybe it's like a reward. Fix a tough bug and your manager
| sends you an article where you get to point out that the author
| is incorrectly using "strawman fallacy."
| jncfhnb wrote:
| You could probably get a better ROI offering opportunities to
| make snarky, condescending comments
| paulcole wrote:
| Go through my comment history lol. I've been giving it away
| for years!
| fragmede wrote:
| Zyns?
| margalabargala wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyn_(nicotine_pouches)
| fragmede wrote:
| Thanks. That's what I found via Google but I don't use
| them so I wasn't sure of the connection and that it
| wasn't some app or library that the kids are using these
| days that I hadn't heard about.
| margalabargala wrote:
| Nah, just a physical item representation of "single
| serving thing that makes the happy neurotransmitters"
| margalabargala wrote:
| This is basically the idea behind various word puzzles. See:
| https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords
| paulcole wrote:
| Great point. Sudoku is one of my favorites in the word
| puzzle genre.
| cmgriffing wrote:
| I had one interesting thought while reading that section.
|
| It seems that a lot of effort has been put into tooling for
| translating to and from English. It's probably much more effort
| invested than for other languages, so by using English he
| actually is increasing his TAM because the translation tools
| are better adapted to many other languages from English.
| Dalewyn wrote:
| Or to put it another way:
|
| Spanish can understand English.
|
| English can't understand Spanish.
|
| Speaking English you can communicate with English and Spanish
| without also speaking Spanish, kill two birds with one stone.
|
| The virtues of a lingua franca.
| renewiltord wrote:
| Funny how dominant languages of the past have died but now
| the lingua angla feels forever. I wonder if that's how it
| feels to be at the height of some culture's age: it feels
| immortal. Then it falls and is only remembered as the past:
| either as humorous, or as sophisticated, but not meant for
| normal use. We shall cement this one by creating AIs in the
| American image.
| coldtea wrote:
| The Roman Empire seemed forever for those living within
| it too!
| wddkcs wrote:
| That cement will always crumble, but the next empire will
| probably be built with it's pieces. It's no accident that
| the current global language is a derivative of the last
| 'worldwide' language, Latin, which itself flourished from
| its relationship to Alexander's Greece, a language which
| stole its alphabet from the semitic empires. Nothing new
| under the sun.
| _heimdall wrote:
| The same can be said for empires in general. Dominance
| seems forever until it isn't, and often the "higher you
| go the faster you fall" idea plays out.
|
| There are plenty of signs that the US could be in the
| midst of its own empire failing. Whether that actually
| plays out is something we wouldn't know for decades or
| centuries, but there sure are a lot of parallels to
| failed empires of the past.
| tithe wrote:
| > "If you're getting hate, that's a good sign." ...In the past,
| he used to engage with them...Now, he doesn't get too involved.
|
| Did he mean to say "passion" in this case? How is hate a "good"
| sign of engagement? If someone has an opinion and is willing to
| share it with me, I'd hope they could do it in a constructive way
| (but I wouldn't call that "hate", and this is the Internet he's
| talking about).
|
| Imagine being surrounded by 100 people hurling insults at you,
| telling you you're no good and your product / service / art
| sucks. How is that a "good sign"?
|
| Edit: Maybe the assumption is "For every hater, I find 10 people
| that _do_ like it", so the realization is that "I'm reaching
| people," and the underlying prayer is that "And hopefully,
| they're not _all_ haters."
| j7ake wrote:
| It's the unrecognized but genius artist fallacy: many great
| artists were unknown and poor when they did their best work.
|
| Therefore, since I am unknown and poor, I must be a great
| artist.
| enneff wrote:
| That's not it at all. Almost all art is just quietly ignored.
| If people have strong feelings about your art then that's a
| huge win.
| doytch wrote:
| I think the argument here is that hate (which is a subset of
| passion) is not the purely negative thing that we immediately
| think it is. Especially in art. When people _hate_ art the art
| has served its purpose. Art's intention (to paint with
| heinously broad strokes) is to create emotions and drive
| thoughts. That's a very different intention than a
| product/service and they shouldn't be compared in that sense.
|
| But also:
|
| > Afterall, it's good for engagement and the Instagram
| algorithm.
| free_bip wrote:
| Arts intention is whatever the artist makes it out to be. If
| an artist wants their work to be loved, not hated... Well
| then this doesn't really apply does it
| theideaofcoffee wrote:
| Even if the artist wrote their own citation of a work
| saying "I intended it for it to be loved, and that's the
| only correct interpretation", it's still not correct if one
| subscribes, as I do, to the literary-focused "the death of
| the author('s authority)" once they release it. They really
| don't get a say how it's taken once someone else perceives
| it.
|
| I think the parent's free use of 'hate' stands in for a
| conflict in emotion and interpretation this way, and less
| it being completely despised or loathed.
| tithe wrote:
| Does the artist control that outcome, though? The clear
| communication of their art's intention? Whether their work
| is loved or hated?
|
| If you're creating art because you enjoy doing it, and if
| you're performing / putting it on display because you think
| it has value and others might enjoy it too, then I can't
| think of any reaction other than love and encouragement
| (implicitly via purchasing or explicitly via encouragement)
| that would suffice in keeping one motivated to share it
| with others.
|
| Now, amidst any hate I might ask myself "Did I do the
| absolute best according to my ability? Is there anything
| else I can improve?" From this perspective, hate is amazing
| as fuel because it's an effective way to eliminate your
| perceived faults (assuming you take it personally, which
| I'd wager most artists do).
| bongodongobob wrote:
| It's what artists do to lie to themselves so their entire life
| doesn't seem like a waste of time. I went from music to tech.
| Art is full of completely delusional hacks.
| BriggyDwiggs42 wrote:
| I mean, that does sound like something someone who switched
| from music to tech would say, but it's also a little true.
| bongodongobob wrote:
| I made a career out of it and made it to regional status.
| If you want to pay your bills, you need to hit national
| level or teach music. It's a fucking grind and you
| naturally age out.
| egypturnash wrote:
| I've been watching one of my friends keep on pushing at
| the grind and it looks super gruelling, he's been
| drifting from programming to running the mixer board at a
| lot of local shows and it's _impossible_ to hook up with
| him to hang out any more. I dunno how he does it.
| harwoodjp wrote:
| I assure you that your life in tech, waging for a boss, is a
| waste of time.
| bongodongobob wrote:
| Nah, steady paycheck, health insurance, don't need
| roommates, can afford the nicer things in life. Gigging and
| touring is fun in your 20s, but starts to drain you. This
| is much better.
| neocritter wrote:
| Tech is also full of delusional hacks. You find them
| everywhere. Delusional hack artists are more fun.
| tester457 wrote:
| Your edit is the goal, it's why content creators have a new
| influx in views after getting "canceled". People who forgot the
| youtuber existed before cancellation come back to see what's
| going on.
|
| In this case, hate is attention that helps algorithms. It's why
| shortform media is usually inflammatory, you get more
| engagement out of it.
|
| Hate and other powerful emotions are a good sign, they can
| promote you to people who don't hate you.
| ambicapter wrote:
| I think this is just a "content creator" realizing, but not
| admitting to themselves, that the algorithms that spread their
| content (that they're banking on to get paid) have "figured
| out" that humans' strong negative emotional reaction has a
| higher engagement potential than strong positive reactions,
| thus those who generate the most hate are those who get
| seen/paid the most.
| blargey wrote:
| If you're selling a product or service promising objective
| utility for a user, maybe. Art is just...there, though. Maybe
| games can promise functionality that a consumer can expect to
| have working, but most mediums don't.
|
| Without objective functionality, "Haters" in an art context
| only have one thing to be vitriolic about - their own
| subjective aesthetic taste. Thus their words cannot contain
| anything of value to the artist.
| AlbertCory wrote:
| In the movie biography of Tom Wolfe (RIP), his daughter tells
| of reading some of the vicious things people said about him,
| and asking him if this didn't bother him.
|
| He said, "No, of course not. You're nobody 'til somebody hates
| you."
|
| So if you despised them first and said something that touched
| them that deeply, I could see considering that a success.
| __loam wrote:
| Hell yeah
| gexaha wrote:
| > Just get started. Start selling in the real world
|
| That's all nice, the problem is though that the market is in
| decline right now
| nachox999 wrote:
| There are billions of dollars floating around in the market,
| it's just a matter of knowing how to catch them
| Animats wrote:
| This looks more like pursuing Instagramming full time.
| iamacyborg wrote:
| Instagram is the marketing channel but you still need to put in
| the work to have something to promote.
| onemoresoop wrote:
| fiddling with printers and plotters isn't the hard part, most
| likely the marketing part is because anything sells if you
| find the fools.
|
| The whole stick of this article strikes me as marketing in
| the first place.
| salomonk_mur wrote:
| I'm pretty sure you are severely understimating the amount
| of work that goes into quality art pieces, no matter the
| medium.
|
| Also, thinking of customers as "fools" only makes sense if
| you believe you are selling/producing garbage. If what you
| make has value, then whoever buys it is no fool.
| onemoresoop wrote:
| You're also underestimating the amount of great quality
| art that simply doesn't sell. Hence the power of
| marketing. And the art that sells for lots and lots of
| money is also marketing and financial gimmicks the art
| world does behind the scenes. Unfortunately it's not
| quality that matters, it's the notoriety of the artist.
| It goes back to marketing in circles.
| coldtea wrote:
| Maybe you're overestimating the amount of art in those
| art pieces!
| nachox999 wrote:
| If someone buys something voluntarily, it's because it
| holds value for that person, not because they're a fool.
| The key lies in the 'voluntarily'.
| FrustratedMonky wrote:
| With AI hitting Art, and the Engineering Job Market right now, is
| it a toss which is the worse choice?
| iamacyborg wrote:
| Art has been a poor career choice for a long time before the
| current state of AI
| onemoresoop wrote:
| Not if you're truly into marketing and art is a second
| thought. Most 'artists' of this type sell copies because that
| easy money. But if you're not good with marketing you end up
| stockpiling copies of your art that nobody wants.
| tkiolp4 wrote:
| Regardless of AI, isn't it equally hard to start a business (no
| matter how small)? OP made it (it seems), but chances are
| against one. I think this applies now, 10 years ago and will
| apply 10 years from now.
|
| We only see posts of the successful ones, though.
| tayo42 wrote:
| Ai isn't making paintings, taking photographs, sculpting or
| making things.
|
| Ai does a very narrow part of what art is.
| holoduke wrote:
| It can enhance it though. I can draw my own painting ask my
| local ai to fill in the gaps or to upscale it a bit etc. Is
| the art part gone then?
| temp0826 wrote:
| AI is hitting engineering now too, no? (Sure in small ways now,
| but I imagine it would be one of the first targets considering
| it is engineers doing it)
|
| Since covid I left tech and have been working at ayahuasca
| retreat centers (assisting and managing) and apprenticing.
| Frankly I can't imagine a career less at risk to AI
| replacement!
|
| Maybe someone should start a job board for AI-proof gigs.
| datadrivenangel wrote:
| Reminds me of the classic: "Sorry I missed your comment of many
| months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out
| of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there's always
| the opportunity to remove my finger with a table saw, but nobody
| asks me if I can add an RSS feed to a DBMS, so there's that :-)"
|
| https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149...
| lolinder wrote:
| I missed this! HN discussion (with an elaboration by the
| author/woodworker) here:
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24541964
| passion__desire wrote:
| I remember a quantum information theorist went to become a hard
| labourer in construction because he thought "physical labour is
| food for the soul"
| monster_group wrote:
| And I want to become a quantum theorist. I think being able
| to manipulate symbols on paper and explain the universe is
| food for the soul. Grass always seems greener on the other
| side. :-)
| ein0p wrote:
| Could they add AI to that table saw so it removes fingers more
| efficiently, that's the pressing question we're facing today.
| gnarbarian wrote:
| no AI just natural stupidity
| Avicebron wrote:
| Not only that does it do that, but it will automatically send
| an assessment to your insurance provider indicating that you
| were using it incorrectly and therefore not eligible for
| coverage! The valuation is through the roof
| m463 wrote:
| and that right there is why RSS is dying. :)
| timwaagh wrote:
| Talk about failing upwards
| antirez wrote:
| Well, he is using code as a tool, as a mean to reach his goals. I
| believe this is the best way to write code, after all. Should
| almost be the only sensible way. It's just that in 2024, having a
| programming job is 90% of times doing things you don't care with
| tools you don't want to use. The problem is not programming
| itself.
| helboi4 wrote:
| Bruh I was just opening up my computer to apply for a CS masters
| to advance my career as a languages & humanities degree holder
| turned SE who always wanted to do art. Now I'm back to thinking I
| should try and work on art until it can take over my career.
|
| It's sort of upsetting that doing something I'm bad at (SE) makes
| me more money than anything I'm good at. Feels like it traps me.
| greenie_beans wrote:
| i'm also a humanities degree holder turned software engineer. i
| recently quit my job so i can work on my art. do it!!!!! my
| spirit is so much better. fuck computers.
| ezekg wrote:
| I went from art to software. I feel like software is the
| ultimate form of creative expression.
| tayo42 wrote:
| This is why I never really tried. I thought I could sell art but
| it's a grind and political. It seems like either you can work
| constantly to sell art to fund making art or half ass it at some
| corporate job, make a ton of money and make art?
| boppo1 wrote:
| Corporate jobs don't leave much time to really make art unless
| it's halfassed garbage.
| tayo42 wrote:
| Thanks I guess I've been making half assed garbage lol
| Gigachad wrote:
| People seem to make a decent living doing furry art
| commissions. Looks like far less grind than other kinds of art
| and also not corporate.
| anal_reactor wrote:
| I saw a graph somewhere that vast majority of income from
| OnlyFans is earned by a small number of top performers. I
| assume that something similar happens in the furry community.
| rgmerk wrote:
| I dunno, the 500th commission of Bandit and Lucky's Dad doing
| *censored* probably gets pretty tiresome as well.
| artur_makly wrote:
| Congrats on following your passion. The Universe will reward you
| ( one way or another )
|
| just curious, with 245K followers on Insta.. how many units/month
| are you selling?
| AlecSchueler wrote:
| I did this some years ago myself and I want to say the only thing
| I miss is...agile working! Throw your tomatoes now.
|
| It's fantastic to work in this field and very fulfilling but I
| consistently find the quality of teamwork and coordination to be
| much lacking compared to my engineering past. I wish I could sit
| down with a group of musicians and give them a bunch of Jira
| tickets to work on for the sprint before the upcoming rehearsal.
| onemoresoop wrote:
| > I wish I could sit down with a group of musicians and give
| them a bunch of Jira tickets to work on for the sprint before
| the upcoming rehearsal.
|
| They'd most likely become your little slaves if you paid them.
| The reason people put up with such bureaucratic systems and
| bosses is the pay. And many quit in frustration for lower pay
| and more freedom.
| greenie_beans wrote:
| i've never met a great instrument player who needed jira for
| solo practice. tomato ** 100000, with a chorus of violins.
| jokethrowaway wrote:
| What happened to people before processes?
| redbell wrote:
| If I were to transition from software engineering, I'd prioritize
| a role that meets the following criteria: 1.
| Minimizes screen time and doesn't rely heavily on computers for
| productivity. 2. Allows me to disconnect after work
| without constant notifications or calls. 3. Offers
| stability, requiring minimal adaptation to new trends or
| technologies. 4. Lastly, and more importantly, not
| easily replaceable by AI in the near future.
| dottjt wrote:
| Any ideas on actual roles?
|
| I think the thing that kills me is the mental exhaustion of
| software development. Just thinking about how to solve problems
| all day is mentally taxing.
| tithe wrote:
| Construction trades (e.g., any role involved in building a
| house).
| bradly wrote:
| Get a portable Laguna or Woodmizer saw mill. Optional kiln.
| redbell wrote:
| IMHO, _Farming_ is the ideal switch for a techie.
| Technically, you are switching from the likes of _Matrix_ to
| speaking to animals.
|
| Another activity that I believe would bring more joy than 99%
| of jobs, if not _all_ , is _charity_.
| tetromino_ wrote:
| Are you speaking from experience? Personally - speaking as
| someone who had needed to plant, hill, water, weed, and
| harvest plenty of sacks of potatoes by hand as a child - I
| would say that coding is vastly preferable over farming;
| and in fact, that most things are preferable over farming.
| andoando wrote:
| I've wondered for a while now, how difficult is
| sustainable farming now if you incorporated all the
| modern technologies?
|
| It should be ridiculously easy to self sustain with all
| this stuff we've built! Instead we just work just as long
| to produce ton of crap that does nothing for our
| happiness.
| _heimdall wrote:
| I'm doing it with almost none of the modern technologies.
| Loving it so far, but it definitely isn't for profit.
| Farming is a losing business these days, few make profit
| that isn't effectively living off of government
| subsidies.
|
| I wouldn't trade it for the world at this point though.
| Its a very strange, and satisfying, experience to raise,
| butcher or harvest, and cook food that you raised on
| farm.
| andoando wrote:
| How long does it take you in a day?
|
| I had saved up a good amount of money (before losing it
| all lol, where I could do this). I was thinking about
| buying some nice land, setting up an aquaponics farm, and
| just running some solar farms/generators.
|
| No fret from me if you want to do it all by hand, but
| there really ought to be a middle ground between living
| as if it was the 1800s and working 8-10 hours day at a
| desk.
| _heimdall wrote:
| It very much depends on what you want to grow/raise and
| how you want to manage it. If your goal is to feed your
| family, you can pretty easily do that with a few hours of
| good work in a day when its all setup.
|
| We don't do absolutely everything by hand, but we
| definitely avoided many of the modern approaches. We have
| 13 cows, 9 chickens and 20 chicks that just hatched, and
| a small garden (~3500 sq ft).
|
| There's always certain jobs that take all day or multiple
| days, like cutting our fields (~50 acres),
| planting/harvesting, and butchering a pig was a huge
| undertaking given that we've never done anything like it
| before. On average, I'd say we put it 6-8 hours a day
| split between two people, with the occasional days of
| both working 8-10 hours each.
| spicyusername wrote:
| Teacher seems to fit some of those.
| ertgbnm wrote:
| Masseuse or physical trainer are the only jobs that I can think
| would qualify.
|
| No screen time, no one needs a midnight massage (although your
| work hours would probably not be 9-5.), not reliant on
| technology, and going to take a while for AI to replace.
|
| Very few good jobs fulfill criteria number 2.
| kodt wrote:
| Don't most physical labor jobs and trades fulfill number 2?
| chasd00 wrote:
| if you live in a place with lots of sun and rain you can make a
| pretty good living owning a yard service and employing a small
| crew. A childhood friend of mine in FL worked as a mower and
| then bought the business when his boss was ready to retire. I
| think he does well into 6 figures and supports his family with
| it.
|
| edit: i will say he and his crew are pretty amazing at what
| they do. Speed and quality is unbelievable (it's been 20 years
| since i've seen him work though)
|
| edit2: i've also heard of people buying a backhoe, dump truck,
| and a trailer and making 6 figures doing random contracts.
| InitialLastName wrote:
| I hear that being a utilities locator is good work. Pretty much
| all your requirements, plus:
|
| - lots of outside time and exercise built into the day
|
| - independent work
|
| - low credential barrier to entry
| bityard wrote:
| These are the roles I seriously considered and actively
| explored to some degree or another.
|
| 1. Electrician. It's not something you can just jump into, even
| if you're the type who can grok 100% of the theory, equipment,
| and electrical code overnight. Even after you're all trained
| up, you have to rank up through various levels, most of which
| require working under someone else for X number of years. It
| takes a decade or more before you really have much of a choice
| of what you get to work on, and start making decent money. In
| other words, it's a serious career change on-par with doctor or
| lawyer, just with much less pay.
|
| 2. Aircraft mechanic. I love planes. Aircraft are expensive
| machines. Getting them repaired and maintained and also
| extremely expensive. So being an aircraft mechanic should be
| lucrative, right? Sadly, no. I don't know where the money goes,
| but most aircraft mechanics make significantly under under the
| median wage and don't have much flexibility on where they can
| work.
|
| 3. Pilot. I would LOVE to fly airplanes and get paid to do it.
| But this is also another whole career in and of itself. The
| training costs are extremely exorbitant. A regular job would
| have me away from home more often than not. According to Real
| Pilots, airlines are some of the worst employers to work for.
| But all that aside, I would be a poor pilot because I have a
| hard time mentally keeping track of numbers. And pilots have to
| memorize and juggle an insane (to me) amount of numbers just to
| land safely. I couldn't memorize more than about three numbers
| for more than 10 seconds or so even at gunpoint.
|
| 4. Real estate investor. Lots of people get surprisingly rich
| from this. But it is a lot of work. The idea is pretty simple:
| buy a run-down house at a discount, fix it up well enough to
| rent, re-finance it to get your money back out, and then you
| effectively have an income-producing property for free. Take
| that money and go do the same on another one. The problem with
| this is that the devil is in the details. Every deal is
| different and unless you're lucky enough to have a mentor
| willing to share resources and vet your deals, you are GOING to
| mess it up. I tried this and it didn't work out for two big
| reasons: 1) I can stay on top of projects, but running all
| aspects of a business myself is not for me. And I could not
| find anyone that I trusted to partner with. 2) The sudden large
| increase in interest rates in the middle of my rehab meant that
| refinancing was not a viable option. I was forced to sell the
| property after it was done. I broke even monetarily, but gained
| a lot of wisdom. I might dip my toes into the water with a
| simpler strategy in the future, but that's a good 5-10 years
| off.
|
| 5. YouTuber. YT was nice in the beginning, but has consistently
| been giving the shaft to content creators while keeping all the
| profits for themselves. On top of that, I found that I really
| hate editing video.
|
| Right now, I've made peace with the fact that my current
| destiny is getting paid fairly good money to sit in front of a
| screen for 8 hours a day. The goal at this point is to sock
| away as much as I can into index funds, to grow it as quickly
| as possible, and retire early enough that I can essentially
| devote my whole day every day to hobbies, grandchildren (if I
| have them), and friends (if I have them).
| narrator wrote:
| Something that fits all of that is a career as a professional
| athlete. Are you any good at golf? ;)
| _heimdall wrote:
| I can strongly recommend taking advantage of the engineering
| salaries while you have access. 15 years in and I finally quit
| my software career to start up a homestead/farm with no debt.
|
| Closest I've come to a new job so far was almost taking a job
| at a local sawmill, I just haven't quite tied up my own
| projects yet to commit the time. Its run by an older local guy
| who has been milling for decades. The list of things I could
| learn from him is very, very long and access to good lumber is
| a great perk.
| sleepingreset wrote:
| you win life.
| singleshot_ wrote:
| In case anyone is looking for the dead opposite, I highly
| suggest practicing law.
| senthil_rajasek wrote:
| If you can relax requirement #3 then stand up comedy comes
| close.
|
| p.s : professional stand up comic here, been trying to quit my
| day job for 14 years :-)
| Joel_Mckay wrote:
| Live the dream, and create something beautiful.
|
| Some retire early =)
| squigglydonut wrote:
| Funny that "always be selling" is a core principle of his art. I
| would describe him more of a businessman than artist. Maybe
| designer. But an artist does not care about money. The art comes
| first. Buyers must wait.
| ojbyrne wrote:
| "robots known as pen plotters" is a nice marketing twist that I
| don't think I've heard before.
|
| https://www.hpmuseum.net/exhibit.php?class=4&cat=24
| BenFranklin100 wrote:
| I've known a couple guys who've done this. In 18 months both were
| back to work as full time programmers.
| lasermatts wrote:
| This really hits home.
|
| I recently quit my job as a robotics engineer -- and I've been
| painting a lot more and have noticed the quality of my work has
| gone up. In the past few weeks I've had more sales than I had in
| the year prior as I was doing it nights and weekends.
|
| Super cool to read about other engineers-turned-artists and how
| they approach their work!
| datascienced wrote:
| What sort of Engineer? I am guessing a mechanical engineer?
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