Thanks -- Really appreciate your thoughtful and kind response! Yes, I see there are a lot of other factors to consider. Will keep networking and interviewing until something lands.

Will also focus my unemployment energy on deepening my software infrastructure and MLOps knowledge, building open source side projects using generative AI tools, using LangChain / GPT / Pinecone / Ollama, focused on practical business purposes like parsing customer service data and fintech anomaly detection. Whatever I can do in a short time to provide more value than GPT4 / GPT5, I guess I'll try my best to work on it with the fear of the abyss...

A part of me still thinks it might be time to pivot to healthcare. I'm no greybeard or "10x Engineer", just a regular old React/Node (formerly Ruby On Rails, PHP) developer doing the CRUD thing, and yeah, I'm not sure I quite make the cut.

All the best of luck to you! And thanks for writing an encouraging response.