[UncleOxidant]

Good for him. As someone who struggles with serious anxiety issues I decided not to do interviewing anymore as it just became too debilitating - days of worrying before the interview, the feeling of dread and doom. That point in the interview when the interviewer says "Ok, now I'm going to ask you a few technical questions..." my heart rate would skyrocket and I'd start sweating perfusely. It's just really difficult to shine in an interview when you're also fighting to stay lucid, let alone calm. It's like there are all these processes that suddenly spin up and swamp your mental CPU. I'm retired from interviewing.

[ogjunkyard]

I mean this question is the most empathetic way possible, from a curiosity-based perspective, and feel free to tell me to shove off if you don't want to answer it.

How do you gain employment in the event you decide you need to leave your current place of employment?

[UncleOxidant]

I have no current place of employment. I'm fortunate to be able to live without paid work for a long while. I'm possibly even retired from paid work altogether and not just from interviewing. This has happened a few years earlier than I had thought it would. I'm definitely in the "leanfire" category - I can be retired, but I'm going to have to be pretty frugal.

That said, I do occasionally get contract gigs through people I've worked with in the past where there are no interviews required, it's more like "Hey, we need someone to do this project and we know you can do it because you've done similar in the past - can you help us out?"

[ogjunkyard]

That's awesome to hear and I appreciate the answer!

[manmal]

As a freelancer, I rarely have to do interviews. Maybe once a year? I don't avoid them because interviews usually mean that a gig is stable and well-paid, but if I had to, I probably could avoid interviews altogether.

[sbierwagen]

>I'm possibly even retired from paid work altogether

Well now that's just cheating.