In July 2021, I quit my job for about a year due to burn out. I found another job in Sep 2022. It was a senior firmware engineer position, fully remote. They shipped me a laptop, jtag emulator and the target device, which was about the size of a thick DVD case. I worked that job for a little over year before being laid off in Dec 2023. I haven't worked since then.
I'll apply when a software job posting is fully remote and looks interesting, but I haven't gotten one response after about 30 applications, compared to my job search in mid-2022 where I would get interviews about 40% of the time. Even though I'm applying here and there, I'm not trying very hard to land a job at all because, truth be told, I'm sick of software engineering. The thought of bullshit deadlines and bullshit status meetings and fighting bullshit fires fills me with dread. I don't want to go back to that and fortunately, I don't need to because since I was laid off in Dec 2023, our net worth has gone from 4M to 6M while I did nothing but playing pickleball. My wife's salary accounted for maybe 300K of that 2M increase. Once I hit 5M, my motivation to find/work another job all but vanished.
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