I’ve worked at 8 jobs in 25 years and 6 since 2008. Anytime that a job stopped meeting my needs and desires, I changed jobs. Any company is just a means for me to exchange labor for money. The last thing I stress out about is if a job isn’t going to meet my needs some day in the future.

I wwas initially contacted by a recruiter at Amazon Retail about an SDE position in mid 2020. The recruiter said that the expectation was that I would relocate after “Covid was over”. I was about to say no thanks and keep working as your bog standard enterprise dev with my big house in the burbs in the southeast.

We kept talking and she suggested with my background I apply for a fully remote position in AWS Professional Services and the rest is history. But in the grand scheme of things. It’s one of many jobs I’ve had.