I quit in spring 2021. I bounced around the US, living in a few different parts, witj family/friends. Driving across the continent so much really made me apprec

I quit in spring 2021. I bounced around the US, living in a few different parts, witj family/friends. Driving across the continent so much really made me appreciate its beauty, particularly the western and southwestern parts. I sometimes get inspired to do little programming projects, never more than a few days. I don’t need to work right now and I don’t have much motivation to. If something fell in my lap I’d probably go with it. Initially after quitting, I was pretty against ever working in the tech industry proper again. With time and hindsight, my view is a bit different now. I realized that if you have means, you don’t really have anything to fear in the workplace. If it gets bad enough just tell em to fuck off. The potential of layoffs, negative feedback, asshole boss/coworkers - who cares? I can just quit. So it’s been freeing to realize that, but I’m still not motivated to dive back in. I’m not conquering the world or doing anything interesting and I don’t aspire to. I read and hang out with my dog, if it’s nice we’ll hike or something. I volunteer. I visited another continent with an old friend. I spend a lot of time cooking, which I’ve always liked to do. I live with and support a very close friend who nearly died in 2020. I’m very proud of how she has turned things around. I’m just living a simple, easy life. I figured I would be restless, itching to get back in the game certainly after a year or so. But it’s almost two years and it hasn’t gone that way. I have a lot of gratitude for my life and I would be fine staying this way. I’m waiting for an IPO that will likely change my circumstances, so my life has had a flavor of “sitting in the waiting room” the last couple years. That has gotten super annoying, there’s stuff I’d like to do that I can’t yet. But it’s the tiniest problem in the world to have.