Love this! So important to give tools to maintainers to make sure these impactful tools can stay open!

Nice. Way to have grit.

I would, but I didn’t want this to be a promotion.

Am authentically interested.

Nice. There is so much new things to learn. Sounds like a good path.

That sounds like an ideal way to find a new job.

What specifically about the job made you change your mind re: taking time off?

I just thought a lot about what kind of work I was especially curious about doing and decided that it was autonomous agents. Seemed like a great area to explore in, since I believe agents running in permissive environments _could_ be a really powerful and practical way to leverage AI but have not been "solved" yet. AI is super buzzy though so I was careful with filtering out companies working on legitimate applications vs just ones wanting to hop on the AI train for the sake of it. The company that approached me happened to be working on agents in an area that I've already had significant experience in, so ended up being a great fit!

Nice. How did you find the job?

Check https://www.workatastartup.com/

+1

That is great news.

How did you go about it? Did you only apply to jobs you where knew someone there?

No they mostly come to me. I did refresh my profile from time to time so that may help.

Other than that, I think having some concrete no BS examples from work really helps.

Thanks for your honesty.