I hate being in Australia for the most part - it’s a country of tall poppy syndrome that has squashed any opportunities to focus on innovation or interesting cultural development for the sake of rent seeking industries.

In any case, I really want to move to Europe long term, potentially migrating but in any case a remote working type of job would be perfect for my lifestyle.

I just finished my degree which was mostly social science and philosophy - good for policy work, but while government jobs are flexible, they are unfortunately not something that can support me moving overseas ;(.

In lieu of this, I’ve considered trying to learn IT related skills (I know it’s a meme but alas) - don’t really know where to start but programming sounds like it would suit me best. Got a friend who learned to code over lockdown and now has a front end Web dev job that’s completely wfh.

Learning something purely for future employment can be problematic - Ideally I’d like to learn IT skills that are somewhat transferable to my interests in music production and more generally philosophy.

Obviously though it would be a big investment of my time to learn these skills - did anyone do this for the same reasons I want to and have success or failure?