[danso]

> I did it for 10 years, but more recently have moved away from phone support as much as possible (or delegated to others to do).

Somehow you managed to also keep the business going as its sole developer without going insane or bankrupt. If your luck turns bad and you have to find job security at a Big TechCo, at least the prospect of being stuck in an open-office-layout won't scare you :)

[cyberferret]

It would probably freak me out TBH! :) After so long working for myself from home, the prospect of being in a busy office with people milling about and a hundred conversations going on at once will probably reduce me to a quivering wreck under the desk! :P

[reaanb]

I did my own support as a solo dev for 15 years for an app used by around 250 companies and as much as 1000 users. Then we got bought out and I moved into an open plan office. It's not the same at all. 5 years later I still struggle to deal with the open plan noise and interruptions.