Being in tech sucks.
A lot of friends do their 9-5 M-F and that is it. I'm working nights and weekends all the time. This weekend marks the 10th straight I have to work.
A lot of my friends don't have to spend their free time studying to try to stay current in their field. This studying is done with out of pocket money since training at corporations sucks. Even our current tech online training partner sucks because it is all videos. Hands on labs are needed. So we have to invest to build our own home labs or rent time in online labs.
My son is in college. He switch majors to Computer Science seeing the $$$ signs despite me warning him that if he wants a life outside of work, he needs to stay in an engineering field.
If I could turn the clock back 20+ years, I'd take a different path. Now I'm in too deep with financial responsibilities of providing for a family and college for two kids, I couldn't take the salary hit to start all over.
FML