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		s1k3s on April 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why did you leave the tech industry? What did you do afterwards?

throwaway286 on April 15, 2020 [–]

Lived off savings, studied new programming languages, deep learning, leetcode, etc.

volkk on April 15, 2020 | [–]

hows that going?

throwaway286 on April 16, 2020 | | [–]

It was fine for a while; I'm definitely the best at solving algorithms problems than I've ever been, but I want the structure of a job now.

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