[ggm]

> As I take a break from Google

I take it you believe you could go back? I think your time in Google might be at an end, forever.

Unless your exit path was to an alphabet backed entity, you're more valuable to them as a non retained worker right now: they're downsizing.

By the time this ship changes course back to expansion you'd be either too expensive or behind an age/skills curve. Hungrier people will eat your lunch surely?