As one in the same boat and tired of LinkedIn sending false positives and cold calls from 'recruiters', and Google searches returning the same five filled jobs over and over under different job site guises, and /then/ reading about recruiting scams, I decided to take Sun RA's advice and get off that planet.

Remember how fun this job used to be? Design meetings in pubs that included a go at Space Invaders, enabling all sorts of solutions that brought smiles instead of KPI's.

A lot of it was because we were in the Frontier, things built from chicken-wire and duct tape, we had the who, thanks to Usenet and Fidonet, who gave us the where, and we had that common why of being evangelists of a new era. There was no money but that was because there were no VCs, we were free, in the GNU sense

That today pretty much describes the Fediverse and ActivityPub, and the dawning need by non-technical folk that thinking small and 'local' is smarter than surveillance capitalism running recommendation algorithms only machines understand.

So it's just like the world we know, only it includes golang

Not that I've found any work there yet. It just feels way better than tunneling through superlatives on LinkedIn.