djtalia

I found contentment required years of therapy and two types of antidepressants. Turns out if you feel you always need something new you may be depressed! Who knew.

This is truly a sad time. You were doing such good work, and I'm sorry you're suffering through this.

True. We mostly create prototypes which are then matured by other companies. We're coders - lots of people a few years out of school, with some experienced guys. Basically, if you want to sling code, you come to me. If you want to do other parts of software engineering (architecture, systems engineering, etc) you go to another dept.

MITRE. (www.mitre.org)

When I joined at 43 the average age of the company was in the late 50's. It's dropped a bit, but not much. And I run the DevOps group in my department, so we do things that would interest you. We're strong engineers, but we value expertise over the latest buzz words. Trust me, I plan on retiring here.

My last employer identified a developer's workweek at 8 hours. The assumption was the other 32 would be consumed by meetings, email, and other crap.

Replay, by Ken Grimwood. It made me look at my life and think about how I'd replay it if I could. It's about as introspective as I ever get.

Lock In And Head On by John Scalzi. The only book of his I've enjoyed more is Red Shirts.