[dvtrn]

How can I reach out to you? I don't have a job offer, I just wanna be nearby when you find this job so I can come with ;)

I don't want to do anything where drivers or hardware keeps sucking the life out of me. I also don't want to do anything where I need to read a dozen spells into some cloud shell in order to get a hello world from an app running on sixteen different machines.

This sang to me, friend. Someone suggested consulting once, to me, and I see it quite a bit in forums where the topic of engineering malaise is brought up.

Problem for me is that puts me a few layers closer to the business types and represents the exact opposite direction I want to go in terms of day to day interactions. Not that I think they're bad folks, I understand they have a part to play in the business same as I do; it's just there's a massive misalignment between "the business" and myself as an engineer in terms of...I guess comparative levels of tolerance for bullshit?

Something, ain't it? Been doing this for 22 years, management for the last 8 and I still can't find a better way to put that.

[alkonaut]

This (I assume) is most jobs in “technical” desktop software (cad, sound editing, automation...) and game tech.

I had a job like this my whole career. I’m describing the area I want to stay in :)