2026.06.19
Bummed about how the company I was a contractor for switched from a "yeah contractors can be become fulltimers" to a cycle of binge and purge. somehow stinging a bit mroe because i found one contractor on my team is avoiding the axe, probably mostly because of what vendor company he is under
I tried to think in terms of silver linings:
* By dialing in to the knowledge dump meeting I got to be The Guy for PFD, a diagraming tool that was particularly more interesting that the usual web forms
* More time w/ classic sprint / agile bona fides, (not sure that is any kid of differentiator these days on the market but still, I've had worse).
* Took advantage of some pretty significant CoPilot time, and learned how it will be a game changer - both in terms of increasing fraughtness about what the job market looks like but also honestly helping deal with some complexities UI as a field has made for itself
* GQL on my CV
* worked with some great folks
* a bit of insurance industry knowledge
* kept food on table for a year and a half
* also some more self awareness in that - I talk a lot. For good or ill, my manner is very much consensus building and "show the work"
pretty fricking annoying gray cloud tho