[as-j]

Left my job in March, after a series of terrible managers I was waking at night dreading coming back from vacation. Being FANG adjacent, it paid well and I have no rush to find new work and I'm half looking and half taking a sabbatical.

I also changed jobs during the .com crash, and this feels by far better. Recruiters are still reaching out and returning messages, companies are interviewing. There's a ton of laughably low ball spam. During .com is was pure crickets. That said, I'm also 20 years on in my career and have skills/experience that are in demand.

Taking a break has been the best thing ever. I get to spend time with my son, I'm learning rust and doing Advent of Code, and took a 1day/week contract with a former employer. They want me to review and better document systems I built for them years ago. This gives me the opportunity to see how they've aged, what we did well and what we should have done better, and I'm being paid to learn this. :)

Then: up at 3am worried about work Now: sleeping well again

Thoughts on the industry: why does tech have terrible founder worship and terrible sr+ managers. Do we really need a director to be able to code, or should they be focused on the 150+ people?