I'm 47 and in one of those weird spaces where I cannot find a job I'm happy with and I sure as hell do not want to wind up managing anything other than code. Ye

I'm 47 and in one of those weird spaces where I cannot find a job I'm happy with and I sure as hell do not want to wind up managing anything other than code. Years of contracting and not networking are starting to bite me in the ass, so I have to do the resume shuffle every time I look for more work. Keeping up with the latest tech is difficult when the paying work doesn't use it and all I have time for is toy projects that don't translate to real projects on the resume. There's only about 18 hours in the day where I can write software and some of those are consumed by lunch and dinner.