<story><title>I quit the tech industry (2015)</title><url>https://eev.ee/blog/2015/06/09/i-quit-the-tech-industry/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robotburrito</author><text>Seems like a huge # of techies I meet out here are trying to reach a million dollars in savings in a job they hate so that they can &amp;quot;go live in a cabin in the woods.&amp;quot;  I try to tell them that my Cousin has been doing that for 40 years, and he dropped out of high school and worked at a gas station.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>One of the weirder side effects of the early retirement (FIRE) movement is that it selects for people who value freedom and time away from work and then convince them that they need to work the highest paid job they can find no matter how miserable it makes them right now. A lot of tech companies capitalize on this by offering 20% raises to recruit people and then demand 50-100% more work until they burn out. They can always recruit more people to backfill because 20% (or more) raises are hard to turn down.&lt;p&gt;Not everyone, of course, but this theme plays out far too frequently in FIRE communities.</text></comment>
<story><title>I quit the tech industry (2015)</title><url>https://eev.ee/blog/2015/06/09/i-quit-the-tech-industry/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>robotburrito</author><text>Seems like a huge # of techies I meet out here are trying to reach a million dollars in savings in a job they hate so that they can &amp;quot;go live in a cabin in the woods.&amp;quot;  I try to tell them that my Cousin has been doing that for 40 years, and he dropped out of high school and worked at a gas station.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tiborsaas</author><text>Yes, but the &amp;quot;cabin&amp;quot; should look like this and should not be more than a 30 min drive from a major city:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;offbeathome.com&amp;#x2F;snohomish-pyramid-house&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;offbeathome.com&amp;#x2F;snohomish-pyramid-house&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.prefabcontainerhomes.org&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;4x45-ft-shipping-container-home-ireland.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.prefabcontainerhomes.org&amp;#x2F;2020&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;4x45-ft-shippin...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ignant.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;a-minimal-concrete-house-offering-stunning-views-from-both-sides&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ignant.com&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;11&amp;#x2F;a-minimal-concrete-house-o...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>