Ideal dev job would be teaching kids code. Probably a side-gig at a local school.

Main gig would be writing code to exploit the "push to prod" Internet of Things things. Security on that is garbage. 🚮

I second the teaching thing, but I'm still in University myself and sometimes I see posts on Reddit that go something like "I'm 17 and created my first *real* website! Please give me feedback" and then the site turns out to be this incredibly nice looking, feature rich web application built with god knows what and I'm left sitting here thinking "Christ.... I'm 30, in university studying this and it would take me probably 6 months to build something like this with half the functionality".....

@polaroidkidd use ready-made components and it will make days or hours. Buy a template on themeforest, it will be an instant.

@polaroidkidd But the fact that you're learning is important. My co-worker is almost 45 and took a job change to be a Full-Stack Developer. Anything is possible. :)

There's plenty of opportunities to teach kids to code, at least where I am (Chicago). I'm actually trying to get out of doing that because I went down this career path to be a dev and got pigeonholed from everyone asking me to teach instead.

I currently teach 3 kids OOP with Python, CI/CO, everything they need from development to production and believe me they inspire me so much..it's one of the best side jobs I've got.