Thanks for the inquiry, I'd love to be convinced otherwise as it would really lower my requirements. I might not even want to leave my current gig! I think my o

Thanks for the inquiry, I'd love to be convinced otherwise as it would really lower my requirements. I might not even want to leave my current gig! I think my original comment made it sound like I'm trying to have fun and get drunk with a bunch of SV clones. I'm not. First, it's largely about the amount of time and energy spent at work. It's roughly most of my time and most of my energy. So if I have a multitude of near-term goals in life (make money, make friends, care for family, maintain my health, make art) and most of my bandwidth is spent pursuing one (money), then the rest of my goals suffer. Second, the "make friends" is an important value of mine. I'm not talking about forced friendship from "fun" work events. I can't stand that. I mean working with deep and interesting people willing to open up about themselves. Currently everyone I work with has very little similar or interesting life experience (from college grind to big tech grind to family+kids). My attempts to break out of daily conversations about the weather and traffic fall utterly flat. It's often suffering through a difficult shared experience that brings people together, but my current remote-only and heavily silo'd work environment doesn't provide that. My current slog is wake up, log-in, scrum, work remotely, converse with others only to further my work or their work, log off, spend a few hours of the evening alone, sleep, repeat. My approach to a job search would be a bit different if I had a partner, kids, network of close friends nearby, able to visit family without a plane ticket. Honestly a job in tech doesn't really fit what I want out of life anymore, but I'm over a decade into it, it pays SO well, and provides quite a bit of intellectual stimulation without have to do any legwork to get it. Just trying to make it palatable.