things I want in my next job

I'm grinding hard to get to a place where I can stay for a long time. I am so sick of being forced to job-hop due to either 1) layoffs, or 2) poor fits. 

If I can find the following, I'm staying:

  • 9-5 only. No late night or weekend work. I am so sick of having to work weekends, especially if it's late at night with no defined end time. 
  • Remote. 
  • 100K. Just enough to live in California. 
  • An actual CI/CD pipeline with blue-green deployments. Please let me work with people who know what Jenkins is. Please. 
  • No on-call. Unplug when you're off work. 
  • Actual documentation. A culture where I am allowed to document. 
  • Red tape, not "move fast and break things". Let me be slow and meticulous. That's how I work best. 
  • Test-driven development. 
At this point I don't even care if I only get 10 days of PTO like I currently have. I just don't want to work weekends anymore. 

I love code. Really I do. It's one of my biggest passions in life. That doesn't mean I want to do it at 10 PM on a Sunday. 

I do not care what I'm doing. I will be happy as long as it involves code/computers/machines in some way, and stays within a 9-5 timebox. And I want to stay very far away from management. 

If I have one gift, it's that I'm not easily bored. I'm incredibly happy with anything tech-related. Just let me log off on time and not work on a Sunday. Please. 

Ultimately, I need a launchpad. For mastering computer science (instead of duct taping), for making beautiful art for my comics, for writing and publishing my novels, for studying engineering, for playing my instruments, for doing theme park trips on the weekends. 

I hurt
How long's this worthless week?
I hurt myself to see if I still heal
I feel my feet upon the sand 
And man I hate my job 
Boxes make, well, better homes in old tapestry
For beetles, bugs, and apathy
- Aquarium

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