Phealael

Any advice for someone who has been programming for ten years, has strong full stack technical ability and excellent soft skills along with experience managing/mentoring teams both large and small and is just completely and utterly sick of it? I can't find a single posting I'd be interested in and I can't imagine how I'll succeed in an interview process for a job I genuinely don't want without lying and I refuse to do that.

Totally fair question but what I'm sick of is agency life specifically and the thanklessness/inadequate pay for leadership positions and alternatively the unfair time constraints and cluelessness associated with scoping work out. Every agency I've been at has lied about future potential and utilized manipulative tactics to move goal posts on expectations and never meet the requirements I have as someone just starting out with a family.

And go where? Genuinely asking here. I've been looking for 6 months now for something decent and now my house in New Jersey of all places just got destroyed by a tornado. Once things settle down I really need to find a place that will allow me a work life balance.