no advice in particular that you should listen to except that every year over 35 prob counts against you - market seems pretty bad right now, too, but i'm not sure how bad - might just be me. in either case, 6 months looking might be optimistic, esp if you hope to land a job at or near the same level - whether pm, sr pm, etc. and that might be no matter your particular skillset, desired IT position, experience, etc. we're a few months out from the layoffs, so maybe things start easing a bit now, but who knows.

i'm finally being pushed into trying to go from wantrepreneur to entrepreneur - it's not working out for me (yet?), but it's def exhilirating. and i still have this feeling that as soon as i do it, i'll be like 'FUCK!' -- as in, why didn't i do this x years ago? i, like a lot of people, have tried to try, but not _really_.

my particular view on life is, as an americano/whitey/male/etc., i have literally 1Mx more opportunity, thus responsibility, to do good/important shit than the literally billions of other people who do _not_ enjoy what i do, so that's a driver to me to actually try to do something useful/meaningful w/ my time on earth.

but it's also just selfish - i want it - i don't think humans were made to take orders from a dictator, and it's a/the reason i've always had problems with having my own personal dictator - whoever happened to be my boss.