I guess I'm a NEET now. Worked for a Woke multinational, and they don't have any particular nation's interests in mind; and I've had a problem with that for some years. But then they decided to rub that "fuck you" in my face by supporting a bunch of Social Justice shit, and I decided I was done supporting an organization that hated me. Timed it right when a bunch of other experienced people were leaving for maximum pain.
I'm trying to do more gardening now, with the goal of producing more of my own food. Have a black thumb, so that should be an interesting journey.
I'm in much the same situation you were. When I got hired on I figured I'd probably stick it out for 5 years or so (the money was good and I guess I was a little less pessimistic in my outlook on the world at that point.) But with the covid stuff I don't think even if I wanted to stay past the end of this year they'd let me (currently they're requiring testing to come into the office or any company events if you're unvaccinated/undisclosed, and starting next year they're adding a surcharge to the healthcare for that testing. I'm pretty sure you have to pay the surcharge even if given a WFH exemption, so that's the essentially the absolute limit for me.)
Fortunately I think have some options for keeping enough cashflow to cover the essentials, so hopefully once that settles I'll be able to work toward what I want to be doing, and not have to worry about coming up with enough money to live.
I guess I'm a NEET now. Worked for a Woke multinational, and they don't have any particular nation's interests in mind; and I've had a problem with that for some years. But then they decided to rub that "fuck you" in my face by supporting a bunch of Social Justice shit, and I decided I was done supporting an organization that hated me. Timed it right when a bunch of other experienced people were leaving for maximum pain.
I'm trying to do more gardening now, with the goal of producing more of my own food. Have a black thumb, so that should be an interesting journey.
I'm in much the same situation you were. When I got hired on I figured I'd probably stick it out for 5 years or so (the money was good and I guess I was a little less pessimistic in my outlook on the world at that point.) But with the covid stuff I don't think even if I wanted to stay past the end of this year they'd let me (currently they're requiring testing to come into the office or any company events if you're unvaccinated/undisclosed, and starting next year they're adding a surcharge to the healthcare for that testing. I'm pretty sure you have to pay the surcharge even if given a WFH exemption, so that's the essentially the absolute limit for me.)
Fortunately I think have some options for keeping enough cashflow to cover the essentials, so hopefully once that settles I'll be able to work toward what I want to be doing, and not have to worry about coming up with enough money to live.