I am not on the market as a software developer anymore. I completely shifted my mindset since closing off my own company and stared working as an UX designer.

I am not on the market as a software developer anymore. I completely shifted my mindset since closing off my own company and stared working as an UX designer. Since I am considered “old” (hello, ageism) in the UX design profession, I don't expect someone to judge me by my proven experience and accomplishments of the past. I don't give my honest opinion on the given issue. I ask more follow-up questions and let others give the direction of the solution. Furthermore, I consider my self a facilitator of processes, my focus is on a communication and documentation part of the work. The other stuff (actual design work) is somewhat automatic. The tricky part is how one navigates the landscape of responsibility, but adaptation to a political point of view is a must. Actually, I found out that my employers are not paying me to deliver good UX for their users. They are paying me to visualize and validate their own biases and let them freely contradict themselves. In short, I UX'ed the hell out of the employment process. And when the users (company, PM, teams) are happy everything is fine.:)