I have two options now. Working in a simple not well paid job i am trained in or continue working in IT. I would leave coding and switching to Helpdesk in IT since I burned out as a programmer. I believe the tech industry propaganda brought me to programming so I left the simple job I’m thinking going back to again.
To quote the great philosopher Homer Simpson: “Money can be used to buy goods and services”
So depends what kind of simple you want. Money does solve many problems.
Do you feel like you were passionate about programming? The great thing about programming is that you an always work on free time hobby projects for a very low cost. And I feel like programming is a job where you can jump back in whenever if you have a repository to show for it.
I’d personally say you don’t need to worry about losing the career if you want to hop onto a simpler job for awhile to work on yourself!
It’s not worth it if you can’t enjoy the extra pay. Put health first, career second.
As someone who did phone helpdesk, then deskside support, then server support over a 10 year period and then, after the 2008 recession, moved into programming for another 10 years I would agree that support was the more enjoyable and simple role. You had to learn new tech, but not at the rate you do in programming, plus each day felt different as you were presented with different problems/people. In programming it seems like same stuff different day and it gets old.
I will say that this doesn’t have to be so black and white. A helpdesk role can have progression into desktop and server support and that brings fiscal increases and I didn’t feel any of those positions were overly complex in my life like programming is.
Slight caveat though, I haven’t had to interact people in a helpdesk sense for years now and with the advent of social media and the inflation of ego’s and narcissism in general it might now be that such a role is now less enjoyable. Perhaps your experience is more recent.
