You need to re-adjust your reality. I have 12 years of professional experience and to be honest I hated the last two years until now. The market got flooded by

You need to re-adjust your reality. I have 12 years of professional experience and to be honest I hated the last two years until now. The market got flooded by junior software developers who got paid a lot of money and delivered very little results. The reality is that work sucks. Sometimes, as a developer, you get to work on something you like, with people you like and in a place that you like (remote). But for the most part, that's not an option. 1. Re-Adjust your reality. If you have had a very high salary with 2-3 years of experience, that was an exceptional event. You'll need to re-figure out how much you are worth. 2. Accept to work on some company that doesn't necessarily check all your boxes. I happen to be in this particular position: I am both hiring and also looking for a job. It's very difficult to get anyone senior right now. It's also very difficult, for me, to find a position that checks my boxes and still pays a reasonable salary vis-a-vis my skill set. Part of the problem, many companies have difficulty making a value assessment of my contribution's worth.