kluck

Hello!

I am a sw dev for 10+ years now but I always liked working with my hands, for example in my workshop and I like the outdoors as well. Also I like beeing with people, having conversations and such. As you might know, sw development is not exactly physical, usually not done outdoors and there are not very many social interactions involved.

So, after thinking about this for quite a while, are there any software development jobs or (related) activities (that earn money) that involve also working with my hands on physical objects, maybe even outdoors and with more people involved?

Thanks!

I have a big pile of files (text, pdf, images, tars, zips, all kinds of stuff) that contain ideas, concepts, software prototypes, sketches and stuff like that ... and it just sits there on my disk. I want to find whats in there, but can not motivate myself to organize it manually.

Are there any tools (offline, desktop) that allow me to search these various kinds of filetypes fast (!) and that do not require me to enter some "ecosystem" of "personal information management"? Maybe even with the possibility to reorganize the information virtually, without changing the actual files. Open source (GPL or similar) software preferred!

What do you use for this task?