Yeah, I've been looking at fully remote stuff, but I think at least hybrid working would be good to get me back to.... more normal conversational types, etc. Five years of biting sarcasm and shock humour probably needs to be beaten out of me. That, and I do like being in an office for the socials where possible; fully remote is fine, if you have a personal life to fall back on, which I really don't these days.
Because, for example, I've had to dip into work three times today; once at the behest of the MD (who at least asked nicely this time), once literally to go to the office with a key holder as a window wasnt shut priority and had blown open, and once to carry on a job that I ran out of time for yesterday but needs doing.
So it's not like, even if I had the money, I could go to Scarborough and see some old friends. Because I literally don't get days off. The thing for the MD only took 20 mins, but it only takes five minutes of unexpected, urgent work to ruin my day.
So hybrid or full office, I'm thinking infrastructure engineering if I want to keep my hands on, or ops management (IE looking after a bunch of like minded nerds) because I like working With People, I think I'd do a decent job of looking after employees given my recent experience of being treated like garbage
and it wouldn't require me to be at the coal face so often, which would be a pleasant change.
I'm just, as noted, trying to avoid jumping from one bad job, to a slightly less bad job; IE AQL always have openings for systems administrators, but I believe that their CEO is similarly inept to my own - so I could probably walk into that job, but I'd be in exactly the same position as before.
Could really do with a clean break to something sane.
I'd even go so far as to say that as long as you don't wear something deliberately offensive, and your hair / beard doesn't look like this:
