[sokoloff]

Lots of good advice here about paying attention to the patterns of what you like versus dislike.

For me, I love being able to sit down and concentrate for 5 hours and make progress on a coding activity. (Advent of Code is almost catnip for me; I’ll save up a week’s worth of them and blow a half a Saturday on them.) Other people thrive on social aspects of team/project work.

Naturally, I picked a job that gives me virtually none of that focused coding time, so there’s that…