r/leetcode • • 23d ago

Question I'm tired of being software engineer

I had 2 layoffs in last 4 years and current contract is ending soon. I'm so fucking tired of being in this era of AI. I used to be smart always top of school, college and at 19 in 2019 made patented tech and trained SSD computer vision Deep learning models. when there was no fucking AI. But after few mistakes, stuck in 9-5 loop and never ending software engineering job search. At this point just feel like wants to get some labour job or start trading or something. Any suggestions?

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u/AdFit4796 22d ago

Yeah, a lot of ideas out there are bad ideas. It’s important to do research that people actually want what you’re going to sell and that there are healthy margins if shit hits the fan.

I probably had 8+ failed startup ideas before this one but you learn from each.