Funny enough, after an interview I had yesterday where it sounds like they&#x27;re going to reject me for &quot;culture fit&quot; reasons, I kind of came to the conclusion that fulltime jobs and even direct contracting isn&#x27;t for me anymore. It was for a security engineer job where my &quot;I may have actually convinced comcast to start a bug bounty program after disclosing a major security hole over the phone.&quot; story got no reaction.  Not entirely sure what I&#x27;ll do, but freelancing lately has been pretty enjoyable. Then again, I don&#x27;t know how long that&#x27;s doable. You sound like you&#x27;re going down the same route I am with work, long break, work, long break and you&#x27;re right that those projects get almost no attention. That lack of attention is getting me further and further from wanting to do programming&#x2F;IT for a living and to just use the knowledge as tools for other things. If you&#x27;re interested in it, try doing civics work and hammer your city&#x2F;state with FOIA requests to get things you&#x27;re interested in. You might find that the &quot;rabbit holes&quot; there are surprisingly exciting.<p>If you&#x27;re ever in Chicago, hit me up and we can grab some drinks.