Officially now. I have just submitted my first application. And a very strange thing it is to do.
I’ve not actually had to look for work for something like twenty years. In fact I think the last job I applied for was in 2001, because I recall seeing the Twin Towers being destroyed on the news in the Mitsubishi office where I was working. Since then everything I have done has been word-of-mouth.
My situation is somewhat complicated by the fact that moving isn’t an option because we share our home with my in-laws who are close to ninety years old and not in great health. Fortunately many companies are willing to countenance remote working these days and I’m quite used to it, that Mitsubishi job being the only one I’ve had to go to an office for this century. If I’m completely honest there is almost nowhere I’d want to move to anyhow unless it were similarly rural.
So, if someone is looking for a code-writing Linux sysadmin who keeps bees and grows loads of his own vegetables as well as being willing to teach himself pretty much any skill he needs, whether it be welding, tree-felling or butchery, by all means let me know 😀