General Discussion

I would not only learn to code in more languages, but I'd learn to do it using AI. And I'd learn to use AI to do all sorts of tasks for me. But I'd probably want a systems engineering background over a software engineering one.

And I appreciate blue collar work, my dad was a die maker and worked every hour he could get for decades. But he worked so he could afford to send his kids to private school so we could get into college, so we wouldn't have to do the type of work he did his whole life, the type of work that broke his body and cost him so much time with his family.

You still want those desk jobs, you still want to sit in an office over standing on a factory floor, it's a better life for the 4 decades or more you'll be working 40-50 hours a week.