- 30 is not old, don't worry about that. - Continue to deal with your depression. It's going to affect everything. Take charge of your treatment and have a say

- 30 is not old, don't worry about that. - Continue to deal with your depression. It's going to affect everything. Take charge of your treatment and have a say in what works for you. Treat your doctor as a team member, not a boss. Pay attention to all the "be healthy" advice and decide what that means for you, but decide. - There will be software fashions and software eternal truths. You'll come to know the difference. You'll also notice that fashion will change, and you'll see some things fall out of fashion and come back years later. You'll also find that things you held as eternal truths will change. So what? You don't have to be right, you just have to be interested. - Maybe you want to step away from software for awhile, do something else and come back. - Or something. It seems like, just vaguely, you could benefit from shaking up the whole thing. - Overly ambitious projects: choose smaller scopes. Build up gradually. - You don't have to stay in software, and you don't have to leave software. You don't have to do anything. You can do whatever you decide to do, and there's no requirement to follow any particular path. Make lists of all the mundane and outrageous things you can do, both career-wise and personal wise. Leave nothing off the table. Decide to do some of it. But don't feel like you have to commit the rest of your life to whatever you choose, you can change it whenever you want. You're going to change anyway (guaran-fucking-teed), you might as well have some say in it.