--- title: What you find when you stop looking | daily.dev description: A former software engineer shares their journey of leaving a high-pressure job to travel and explore life without rigorous planning. They highlight the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-you-find-when-you-stop-looking-8zpml95yz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What you find when you stop looking | daily.dev og:description: A former software engineer shares their journey of leaving a high-pressure job to travel and explore life without rigorous planning. They highlight the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-you-find-when-you-stop-looking-8zpml95yz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8ZpMl95yz.png og:image:alt: What you find when you stop looking og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What you find when you stop looking **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 14 min read · 10 upvotes · 2 comments ## Summary A former software engineer shares their journey of leaving a high-pressure job to travel and explore life without rigorous planning. They highlight the inefficiencies and stress of trying to control chaos in both professional and personal contexts, arguing that planning is only effective when the world is stable and predictable. Through their travels, they learn to trust themselves and embrace uncertainty, allowing life to unfold more organically. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@vitadani** · 0 upvotes > Great insight. We found this out on our honeymoon. I just wish we could retain the life lessons we learned **@macb** · 0 upvotes > best of luck --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#mental-health](https://daily.dev/tags/mental-health) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/what-you-find-when-you-stop-looking-8zpml95yz) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"What you find when you stop looking","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-you-find-when-you-stop-looking-8zpml95yz","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/what-you-find-when-you-stop-looking-8zpml95yz"},"datePublished":"2024-07-16T18:27:56.790Z","dateModified":"2024-08-23T15:54:05.590Z","description":"A former software engineer shares their journey of leaving a high-pressure job to travel and explore life without rigorous planning. 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We found this out on our honeymoon. I just wish we could retain the life lessons we learned","datePublished":"2024-10-08T13:25:52.747Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/8ZpMl95yz#c-pKsk55s7b","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel Vitacolonna","url":"https://daily.dev/vitadani","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/44033488?v=4"}},{"@type":"Comment","text":"best of luck","datePublished":"2024-10-06T18:23:33.335Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/8ZpMl95yz#c-7iRaL0qOI","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"MB","url":"https://daily.dev/macb","image":"https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/a/ACg8ocIbyht175AwV5Amxllef4auarOmGuIsWSwu-cVI5NC0KPhhrA=s96-c"}}]} ```