I'm surprised that you'd be eating through savings while living with your parents unless you're buying some very expensive cards. I'm more of an ops guy here t

I'm surprised that you'd be eating through savings while living with your parents unless you're buying some very expensive cards. I'm more of an ops guy here than strictly dev if it makes any difference, but I hit a wall pretty early in my career as far as realizing how much bullshit there is in the industry. I thought the goal was to use technology to assist people in their endeavors, but I worked with a lot of startups in the early to mid 10's and it was pretty obvious to me back then that it was ZIRP (though I wouldn't have known that term at the time) behavior; a lot of people who seemed more interested in living the cool founder lifestyle, whatever nominal product they were working on seemed secondary. Watching the big tech guys deteriorate into abusive wannabe or actual monopolists didn't help. So the 10's were a slide for me, but the pandemic lockdowns really brought things to a head where I really hit the wall - it turns out that while I'm glad for the flexibility of the occasional WFH day, the thought of being chained to a desk at my house for 8 hours a day for another 30ish years feels like a diet version of hell (24 hours/day for eternity would be full calorie hell). At some point, I also moved back with my parents. If you get along with them, having someone on your side who doesn't want anything from you is a wonderful thing. It turns out getting laid off was one of the best things to happen to me. The terms were good enough that I more or less got a paid sabbatical which I used to help the parents with some construction work they were up to which had some benefits for my physical health that had deteriorated, and they appreciated it. Now I work all-around ops at a small, local medical software company in person. I don't know how long this sort of thing is viable (but they've been in business a long time, so I assume they've got parts of this figured out). It's really nice to just make a product that works for our customers and doesn't try to extract value/control from them.