Alternative careers for a developer
pavlov: I studied to be a film editor, but ended up as a developer. There's a surprising similarity in the thought processes and trade-offs involved in editing and coding. In both cases, you're in charge of building up a coherent microcosm using a constrained set of intellectual raw material that was created by someone else, whose goals you may or may not agree with.Unfortunately film editing nowadays involves mostly sitting at a computer (unless you're an oldschool star editor who can demand a Steenbeck flatbed editor and real tangible film).