Looking for advice from those who've successfully left tech. I've been in for 3 1/2 years (since graduating). In large part my career has felt like it has been failing upwards. Recently, I quit my job and have gotten to a point where I'm starting to think I'm not cut out for this. A few comments on this:
1. I'm not really progressing far into interviews, especially in the technical portions.
2. Some simple tech questions are now throwing me through a loop.
3. With the negative feedback I've gotten my motivation has basically reduced to 0.
4. I've traditionally struggled with logic tasks and have had to take more time than my peers to solve them.
5. I've had a hard time connecting and relating to co-workers and team members.
My resume reads nicely: https://github.com/arrjayh/arrjayh-resume/blob/master/hickok_resume.pdf and I fortunately get lots of interviews but they pretty quickly fizzle out after 1 or 2 technical assessments.
I'm considering/looking into the trades. I'm hoping there might be a trade where I could leverage some existing skills, but I find that unlikely. Would love to get some feedback from any one out there that has pivoted or at least considered it.
Not yet. Been applying to a wealth of non-tech jobs, salary be (almost) damned.
No dice. I've even been herding sheep in my holidays, to learn whether I could do that for the next 15-20 years. Still unsure.
Why go this route? Because after 25 years of IT, I have a deep dislike for the whole mess that is the self-serving, disingenuous, marketing-riddled, self-referential cesspool of corporate IT.
Alas, while I'm good at legal stuff, communication, information researching etc. it appears I'm type cast to be a keyboard warrior. I get a gazillion of admin, consultancy and coding offers, but not anything else ever.
Albeit this experience is from Germany, a place that's still crazy for it's maddening love of requiring many funky pieces of government-sponsored paper to get into any vocation that isn't guarding doors.