[drakonka]

A company once reached out asking to talk after a few of ex-colleagues recommended me. I was not actively looking to change jobs at the time, but after catching up with them they basically asked me what kind of role I might be interested in making a move for. At the time I'd been writing Go for fun and liked the language, but hadn't worked with it professionally. It was the first thing that came to mind, so I asked them if they did anything with Go. Turns out most of their backend stack was written in Go. That sounded fun/interesting, so I ended up interviewing for a backend dev position.

In retrospect, curiosity and learning have been the things that drive most of my career moves. In this particular instance I was curious about working with Go and followed that. Most of the time it is the project and types of problems involved that pique my curiosity as opposed to language, though.