Rediscovering the joy of tech work that actually suits you.
It used to be easy. Turn up, do a job of work, get paid. Maybe there was some on-call, but you got paid for that, or time in lieu. More than that, you didn't really care because you were 25 and you loved working in tech.
But somewhere along the way you grew ambitious, you led, you managed, and that ambition turned on you. Now you don't know which way is up. You feel the younger engineers have all the cards. They are smarter, cheaper, harder working.
So what's your next move?
Here's what I did....