Best advice on how to escape web dev?

Join the labourers union.

What do you mean? Just do something else. You are not a slave.

Part of the crew, part of the ship. The dice has been cast

@Lensflare I’m not a rich guy either, want to know best options for people who are restricted financially and chronically like me

A naughty twitter account seems to be most people's intro to well paying industries

Don't learn web dev in the first place.

Study ML etc on the side, then start job hunting after you have a few small projects under your belt

I love how there's people trying to hire budget CTOs for 50$/hour and 20 hours a week lol

haha what a slave. My advice - Get rekt fam.

Millennium falcon

@electrineer well that certainly doesn’t answer my question

@TeachMeCode imma get really high and try to make it work

@shovethisrant ok when you think you’re lando escaping the Death Star at high speeds as it’s on fire about to explode, pray and stop your car when it’s safe…

@shovethisrant you can still unlearn it

@electrineer learn to eat my booty

web%20dev

Sorry.

@donkulator I like it 😂

Cobain. Yourself or everyone else.

What country are you in? Do you have a criminal record?

@jeeper no and no

@shovethisrant I am not familiar with the government of No, but in the US a good way to move to something more… interesting than web dev is to get a job in defence contracting. They are short in all areas and all experience levels. If you don’t have a criminal record getting a clearance is pretty attainable. First job to get the clearance will usually suck and be at a smaller company. It’s the second job once you have the clearance where you can shop companies and technologies.
My path was private web dev to clearance work on C# monstrosities to Ada for radar controllers and when I left there was something coming up for autopilot dev that sounded cool.
Drawbacks include not necessarily getting to pick your geography, you may have to go to where the cool project is, and total comp is going to be lower since RSUs are rare but it’s not a bad life. Note I’m discussing contractor positions not GS positions. IMO, GS is going to be too stodgy for most people. You’ve got to be someone who wants stability and consistency first.

@jeeper this is really good information and advice, thank you