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Which career path is not ruined by AI? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I'm kind of sick of being a dev. I hate AI with a passion.

I hate the hallucinations, I hate slop, I hate megacrops, I hate the environmental impacts, I hate the massive costs. I could go on but you get the picture.

At work I often times have to review vibe code slop from people who clock in 9 to 5 and don't give a fuck (I respect that, I just wish your fucking code wasn't slop)

I'm sick of it, I'm sick of hearing about AI tooling or new models or bro agentic actions bro based on your documentation bro.

I want to switch careers, so which career is not ruined by AI?

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[โ€“] 37 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I did this 9 years ago. I make 2/3rds of what I did in software, but I don't regret it. pivoted to environmental work. My job satisfaction is like, a thousand percent better.

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Can you say any more about the type of environmental work?

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  • [โ€“] 17 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I started over doing entry level spray tech work treating exotic plants through americorps and worked my way up. I do a lot of field data collection and gis work now. So, I still utilize my old software skills. I work for my local government doing environmental land management.

    GIS is definitely a software adjacent job that is utilized a lot in land management. But that isn't the initial route I took. I really did just kind of started over.

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