I took a two month sabbatical to defrag my brain a little bit so I could keep my job because I liked everyone and I wanted to stay, and then I returned just in time for 70% of the company to be laid off. And y'know what? I was still burned out. I didn't think I was all that burned out, but I was.

Now that I'm hitting the 5-6 month mark I'm suddenly finding myself tinkering with the computer again for fun. I went and learned the Elixir programming language, got back into Blender (as you may have noticed) and installed several different Linux distros. Man, I've not experimented with Linux distros in like a decade. I learned a bunch of new stuff. I see why y'all are on Void.

I want to give it at least a month, not least because by then I should have recovered a bit better from last month's not very fun visit to hospital (I'm fine, just not very mobile), but I'm looking for work again.

I'm senior and experienced enough that it's not really a matter of technology. I'll learn your technology. You know I learn programming languages when I'm bored. What I really want is good people: ones who will understand if I log in to Slack and say "gonna take the day off to cry" on that one day every three months or so when my brain decides to do that. Ones who don't burn the candle at both ends. Folks who post to #random about some injustice they've heard about that made them angry. Companies where half the employees are in #lgbt. Places where I'll cry as hard as I did this time when I leave.

See sidebar for contact deets if you've got something that sounds exactly like that.