Yeah, months between professional jobs has historically been completely normal if you couldn't interleave continue working and job searching. The meme (even if

Yeah, months between professional jobs has historically been completely normal if you couldn't interleave continue working and job searching. The meme (even if exaggerated) of rage-quitting a software job on Monday, sending out some emails, and having a few higher-paying offers by the end of the week is a complete aberration. (Oh, and historically in many cases, it might also have involved moving across the country.) I was talking to multiple people at an event fairly recently and there was general consensus that tech was in a "weird" place right now relative to the past decade or so.