It's funny you say this. After struggling to find work (but mostly to find meaningful work), I've committed myself to pursuing jobs related to my curiosities/interests. I didn't really do that before. Over time, I've started to narrow down based off of what I'm genuinely interested in. That way I don't have to lie when I say I'm "passionate" about something I'm working on. :-)

> I've started to narrow down based off of what I'm genuinely interested in.

How do you do that if you’re past work is disconnected from what you’re interested in.

you do side projects! More seriously, I'm exactly in this situation and you'll have to find transversal skills, often soft skills when it' very different. And side projects, or courses.

And accept a junior position, even if you're a senior dentist.

Hey quick question, how do I get a job at Amazon? ;) jk

I love "A job is not everything in someone’s life, but it’s very, very important to love your job." from your article. After a couple burnouts over a decade in this industry, I truly seek positions I at least think I'll love.

> Hey quick question, how do I get a job at Amazon? ;) jk

(I know you are joking).

First, give yourself an hourly anal probe for a few days. If you can deal with that, then you may be able to deal with working at Amazon.

> I love "A job is not everything in someone’s life, but it’s very, very important to love your job."

There are literally billions of people on earth who go to work everyday not “loving their job”. I don’t dislike my job no more than I dislike using the bathroom everyday. It’s just something I have to do to survive.

I've heard from many that writing can help build credibility for hiring purposes. I have committed myself to writing at least something on all future projects because of this. Thanks for the tip.

p.s your use of "Technophilosopher" and "chaos magician" to describe yourself is incredible

I've been meaning to write a longer rant about this, but I'm not an engineer. I'm a glorified product designer and marketer.

Also every title is made up. Some are more made up than others.

Data point for you: In Douglas Coupland's Microserfs the start-up team choose their own titles for their business cards (yes, business cards - it was written a long time ago). Two that I remember were "Personal Trainer" and "Crew Chief".

I have gotten very good engagement of my blog content as I write for fun sometimes

I got to learn a lot of from folks who read my Content.

Also if you don’t mind me asking

How can a blog aid in finding or landing a job

Become an expert in a thing, companies that need expertise in that thing will come knocking.

Great advice thanks for sharing

I've put a lot of hours into factorio. This is amazing. I genuinely love the art style in the gif.

Care to elaborate? Never had the money to invest but have dabbled with some very basic auto trading algos. Long story short, before I learned any math related to gambling, I didn't understand why martingale can't work in gambling or investment. Now I do. :P

Thanks for the advice. Didn't want to seem like I was advertising so I didn't go into detail of what I was doing but I think you're right, I can at least talk about the industry. It's a tech recruiting agency that's focused on quality over quantity, leveraging modern (and interesting, fun and new methods) to get the right sort of talent and to truly qualify them based on real skills and help train them if they're not ready. Being an engineer in this industry for over 8 years professionally, it is painfully obvious what's wrong with tech recruiting these days and we're working on the solution(s). One way we're saving money is by targeting our marketing and utilizing methods to find engineers that are more appealing to the engineers themselves. One way we're not planning to save money is on the investment we make into candidates. The idea is, if an engineer makes it to a certain level with us, their growth is our growth. I see that as an investment and not a loss.

I have to warn you that doing things myself has come with the constant guilt of “I should be training someone else to do this if I really want to grow” which is a little proverbially demon of conscience that sits there on my shoulder as I work.

I was a software developer prior to becoming a CEO, or whatever that title means, leading a company.

I’ve developed an internal cloud for managing our R&D data and processing batch research jobs in the cloud. I developed all of the signal processing algorithms and digital filters for our flagship software product.

I am also developing a time series data viewer for our industries specific data which I’ll probably have to hand off at some point.

What I try to avoid doing on my own is HR, Payroll, Finances, there are people much better suited to that and let’s be honest, we’re trying to innovate in technology, not accounting or HR (for the most part, excluding culture obviously which is critical)

Do you have any advice on managing equity at this (early) stage? It is actually something very new to me. I havent been able to apply it anywhere yet. Maybe time to find a business consultant. Sort of answers my question. :)

That’s something I have learned before and have definitely been taking the strategy into consideration so far. We have iterated a little bit through a product but at the moment we are getting partners to help us better understand how to use our approach to solve their problems. In the limited amount of iterations we have done so far the results have been great. Thank you for the awesome advice.

There's nothing unnatural about what you're feeling. Sometimes it will be better and sadly, sometimes it will be worse. I think the first step is to realize that it's natural and there is nothing wrong with you.

Second, I'm going to be real blunt here and this isn't going to help me in any interviews but it needs to be said. Ask yourself a serious question, "Is this job worth my suffering?". If you need time away to go on a walk, learn how to paint, read a book, hiking, or just working on a side project, you need to ask for it. If you're lucky enough to be a job that will understand that then take advantage of it. If your job makes it more difficult then don't stress but it might be time to try to find another job. If a company asked me to work 60+hrs a week I would laugh. If I wanted to work 60 hours, they wouldn't need to ask. Also it's very freeing to take your job less serious and in all honesty, I see improved performance when I'm in that mood.

Some people say pick up a non-related hobby... I think it's simpler than that, really. Just think of what you want to do at any given time and go do that in your time off. My problem in the past has always been making excuses to not do the things I actually wanted to do in my spare time.

There's a bunch more I could speak on this but I think this is fine for now. Go do something fun. Do what you want to do.