I spent a few months working at Amazon before joining Meta over 7 years ago.

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A software engineer shares their decision to leave Meta after 7+ years to pursue passion projects full-time. Despite leaving unvested stock behind, they chose to work on their podcast (The Peterman Pod) featuring career stories and an ergonomic keyboard startup (Compose). With 6 months of runway, they plan to monetize through podcast sponsorships while building products they're intrinsically motivated by.

<p>Hell yea! I spend about 1-2 hrs a week, if I am lucky; on my Python side projects that are mainly for learning git/githut/CLI navigation etc. Plus, majority of my time currently is spend study DS&amp;A rn and Java… I am not a big fan of Java, lol. Now Python is my first language, and Java being my second… Everything I watch about C and C++ makes me look at Java like… :| … Still good learning experience, and getting me used to the world of curly braces and semi-colons every f’ing where, good lord. 9/10 when I throw an error at compile time for my course work is because of a missing semi-colon, lol…</p>


<p>Pursuing passion projects is a pretty big privilege.</p>
