So here I am, 52 years old and out of work.
I'm not hurting, if things work out and we sell our current home and move I could retire and live fairly comfortably. Not a bad situation to be in all things considered.
But I'm not really happy. I want to do something and get paid for doing it. The problem is I realize I don't know how to go about finding a job in my field. I've tried searching the web but it feels wrong somehow. Every job I've ever had came to me rather than the other way around. People I knew told me about people looking for someone like me and I contacted them and "found" employment.
But I've lost those connections as I've gotten older. A big part of the problem is professionally I made the mistake of thinking my previous job (25 years at Microsoft) would be the last one I ever had. So here I am with my "social circle" being people who still work at Microsoft and you folks.
So is the way to go about finding work in software really just slapping a resume on Monster or Dice and pouring thru endless poorly worded job offerings? Or is there some better way of going about it?
I realize this isn't much of anything but I've got to find a way to get out of this funk I'm in. Consider this just one of my steps in breaking the inertia.