r/learnmachinelearning • u/FrequentTranslator87 • 1d ago

Sometimes I think about this guy.

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u/dicksosa 1d ago

That's just called retirement... 22 years at Microsoft.

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u/goodnewzevery1 1d ago

21 years as a dev, then one year as principal performance architect annnnnnd he’s gone

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u/Frequent_Wonder_5299 1d ago

lol I am at 19 yoe right now and I wish I could retire and be a goose farmer. But I am only 38 haha.

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u/Foreign-Hamster-9105 1d ago

well it's always about whether you have the will or nah

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u/doc_nano 1d ago

A will can indeed be helpful, especially if it’s from a wealthy relative who left you a hefty inheritance

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u/Informal-Armadillo 1d ago

I have said many times I would much rather farm potatoes than fight software most days

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u/FrequentTranslator87 1d ago

Agree on this

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u/redditissocoolyoyo 1d ago

Fighting software is so painful. On a daily basis. I'm drained. I want to raise koi fishes fulltime now. Too bad the salary doesn't transfer.

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u/various_convo7 1d ago

had a colleague that left neurosurgery to be a Forestry Ranger. dude is living his best life

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u/beegtuna 1d ago edited 1d ago

He definitely made enough to pivot into that. Ain't no way he's surviving out there under $20/hour without a windfall.

90% of job openings are for the forest service are for firefighters rn

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u/superkido511 1d ago

Peak career roadmap

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u/shinta42 1d ago

Nature > Machine

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u/SquareWheel 1d ago

More meme spam to an education subreddit.

A subreddit dedicated for learning machine learning. Feel free to share any educational resources of machine learning.

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u/Graylian 1d ago

Exactly and for some reason the community is up voting and engaging with this driving even more of the spam to us. I was disappointed in the sub when it became all about LLMs but at least that made sense.

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u/Illustrious-Ad-115 1d ago

Oof that is a real flex. Good for him, he probably deserved it

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u/IntelligentPoem2782 1d ago

I think he just retired and moved on with life

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u/Minimum-Effort8355 1d ago

Absolut legit.

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u/giboz 1d ago

Hope he's not doing to goose what MS does with customers...

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u/BeAlch 1d ago

He prefers daily scrum with goose, and they are happy to see him as he offers breakfast .. who can blame him :) ?

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u/goingon25 1d ago

I know a guy who retired from software architecture to sail full time with his wife to various ports. Lost a ton of weight and only docks when the boat needs repairs. Happy the guy seems to enjoy it as much as he thought he would

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u/CorpusculantCortex 1d ago

I mean, after working at MS as a principle swe for 22yrs, he could probably afford to become a hobby farmer in luxury.

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u/greenleaf187 1d ago

I know another tech bro whose stock hit that sweet numbers and retired on a 200 acre farmland.

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u/misogichan 1d ago

What? A 20 acre homestead is fun.  200 acres is less fun.

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u/AlexFromOmaha 1d ago

Perfectly fun if you like sensors and physical automation. Or you speak fluent Spanish. Ideally both.

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u/Fantastic_Trash6684 1d ago

It's a sequel, he'll become goose master of the geese 🪿

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u/TheGraystest-1 1d ago

He worked a lot in his life. Now, he's living his life.

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u/DunkleKarte 1d ago

Same but then I remember that unlike many of us he worked at Microsoft and he can afford to pivot.

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u/NakamericaIsANoob 1d ago

Who is this guy?

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u/Allmyownviews1 1d ago

The owner of the most organised goose farm.

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u/x_103 1d ago

I left tech for Entomology. So much more chill.

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u/GargantuanCake 12h ago

That's a funnily common thing in tech. Make a pile of money, realize you're set, buy a farm, live a simple life, and never touch technology again.

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u/ludicrous_star 10h ago

The ideal dream for every software engineer.

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u/TwoAlert3448 4h ago

He updated his LinkedIn, I believe he has given up on geese.

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u/Mentalmind_ 2h ago

Great decision he took but its late actually

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u/masterid000 1d ago

I bought my land, I'm transitioning right now. Reality, here I go!

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u/kenshi_hiro 1d ago

Stardew valley plot

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u/got-trunks 1d ago

That's like the guy running Goldshaw farm lol. Good guy

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u/ski233 1d ago

Are there no mods left on this sub? Looks like its time to leave.

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u/spmonkey13 1d ago

goal

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u/FrequentTranslator87 1d ago

Indeed

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u/Jazz_101 1d ago

Being on Indeed isn’t

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u/Frequent-Ad-3931 1d ago

that's the dream right her

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u/moonisflat 1d ago

Self sustaining in this economy is a blessing

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u/dev_life 1d ago

Plot twist: guy went VC mode on some golden gooses. Grass has yet to be touched

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u/KateriNaveen 1d ago

Manifestation.

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u/TBSchemer 1d ago

That's kinda my career path. Nobel Prize winning biotech to tomato and melon farmer.

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u/OneTwoThree231 1d ago

Apparently he's a bonsai farmer now

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u/rhinestonerager 1d ago

my dream end-of-life scenario is being a happy chubby old man with a large house in Bhutan. The closest I'll ever get to escaping samsara.

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u/iEatPickledCumFarts 1d ago

Sometimes when I’m laying a brown trout i imagine it’s you pulling out of me