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brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof: :Nonbinary:") wrote:
I keep on wringing my hands over life direction but I think I have something vaguely resembling an answer.
There's two things I could do that would probably do a decent job of scratching the "interesting meaningful work" part of my life: write countless essays about how tech companies ruin everything (basically, a more refined and reasoned version of what I keep doing on Mastodon), or actually learn how to make proper independent video games (I used to do it a lot in the past, dropped it largely for self-sabotage reasons, have been verrryyyyy slowly picking it up again). I don't think I could juggle both at once so I sorta need to pick. At the moment my writing is stronger than my gamedevving, but my friends say I actually look happy when developing/showing off games.
Neither of these options have (from the perspective of an onlooker) particularly wonderful money-earning prospects, especially not if I'm breaking into the career, so.... I also need a way to pay at least some of the bills, ideally which gives me the time and energy to pursue the writing or gamedev thing. I don't really know how to do this part, even before AI doing commercial software dev was sufficiently soul-sucking to consume my energy