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Tuesday July 14, 2026

Thinking about the career path

The change is crazy, I went from web design around the beginning of uni, to AI/ML stuff, to embedded, now asic design<.span>. I literally just went lower and lower in the layers of abstraction.

I believe this has to do with this dislike I have for having to just accept how things work. Let's say I'm working in a codebase and I call functions that perform lower-level stuff for me. I get this feeling of incompleteness in my knowledge, having to just accept that the lower-level aspects of the project work. This feeling, combined with my interest in building things from scratch brought my interests to where they are today.

ASIC design isn't the end of things though, there's still analog circuits, physics, and math below it but I feel like stopping here, or at analog circuits would be enough for me. Physics and math are cool, but I see them as tools we use to build the things that are REALLY cool.

It sucks though, there's barely any asic design opportunities where I live in Canada. Unless I really lock in and get a job at those places, I might have to move and I don't wanna move. I also don't wanna just work half my waking hours away everyday, I need to find a way to live here and be in charge of my own time.

I'm alluding to a potential startup in the future. I had an idea of specialzing in ADC/DAC technology and making the best around, selling them for a profit. I bet the government would love to see a startup like that and would send some support my way. Then again, startup work can be super high cortisol and idk if I have the grit to not quit when things get tough.

Contract work is another option too, whenever rent is due I can work high intensity short duration and go back to chilling. The question is if that's applicable to the digital/analog ASIC industry,. If it is though, I'll do anything to secure it.

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