> After two years of being beaten into this new way of working I honestly feel more at a loss for what my career is than any other time in my life.
You have a longer post and I want to make clear I’m only discussing one section here, but your emphasis on new is rubbing me the wrong way.
I’ve been doing software for about 2.5 years as long as you and looked for remote jobs, found a few, but couldn’t land them and was forced into in office roles they would take me. It seems like you are having more of a problem of the default job changing from in office to remote, and how the default isn’t your preferred option. Remote first has been a thing for years now and has worked out as a viable way to run a business
You have a longer post and I want to make clear I’m only discussing one section here, but your emphasis on new is rubbing me the wrong way.
I’ve been doing software for about 2.5 years as long as you and looked for remote jobs, found a few, but couldn’t land them and was forced into in office roles they would take me. It seems like you are having more of a problem of the default job changing from in office to remote, and how the default isn’t your preferred option. Remote first has been a thing for years now and has worked out as a viable way to run a business