I like my job more now than I have for the entire 30 years I’ve been working. Besides for four years in the middle of my career from 2012-2016, I’ve always had

I like my job more now than I have for the entire 30 years I’ve been working. Besides for four years in the middle of my career from 2012-2016, I’ve always had a direct line to the customer (B2B until 2020 across multiple companies and then consulting). I’ve always enjoyed the stakeholder interaction and design and found coding a necessary evil to get the design done. During the last decade, my vision/responsibility has been larger than I could accomplish myself - until AI got “good enough”. It’s taken the part of my job I find to be drudgery away. I can go from requirements -> vision -> implementation much faster. As a senior+, I have autonomy on how I implement projects (again consulting) and I don’t have to play the promotion song and dance. There isn’t any place for me to be promoted to. I an assigned an implementation, I get it done on time on budget and it meets requirements either by myself or someone else working with me and everyone leaves me alone. Oh and I have been working remotely for 6 years across three companies