When dealing with memory management, borrow checkers, and segmentation faults finally breaks you so hard that manually swinging a pickaxe in a dark hole sounds like a better career path. Can't blame the guy—at least mining has predictable crashes. The progression from C++ to Rust was supposed to be an upgrade , but turns out trading null pointers for lifetime annotations just swaps one existential crisis for another. Sometimes you just want a job where the only thing that panics is you when the mine shaft collapses. Real talk though: if you've mastered both C++ and Rust, you're probably overqualified for most things anyway. Might as well get some fresh air.