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Do I Regret Being 'Just' a Software Engineer?

Focusing on 'Just Being' A Software Engineer? A semi-biographical piece of reflection about being in tech, how and why I got in and my growing want to eject Level setting I didn't imagine that I would have a want to exit "tech". I used to know someone who's more of a technophobe that they'd care to admit and with good reason, in this landscape[1].

Fast forward back to the time with NYJL, I ended up saving up from a contract job enough to get a Dell PC, ones I've read online that were serviceable since the ability to easily repair extended the lifespan of the device (and reduced the perceived switching cost). I learned and become obsessed with digital security thanks to a good friend, Matt who's both taught me and many others what does it mean to be safe under government surveillance and from other malicious actors with his work at CryptoHarlem- a well known hub in the heart of Harlem consistently putting people of color onto game. When Dorsey became more open with his alignment with passive white supremacy - a now-common underbelly of most tech executives from Sam Altman to Chris Best testing the bounds, I held to the same roots I came to nurture when I developed myself into this space: an anti-capitalist, anti-white-supremacist, anti-anything-that-reduces-the-movement-to-end-oppression (so anti-supremacism).

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