I failed to get a remote job on one of those famous remote first oriented kind of startups/companies and realized how much difficult that market is. It's sexy and It would certainly advance me in terms of knowledge and on my carreer path.

Though, that failure led me to my current venture where I validated that I am able to stand as a senior developer in a small dev team(3-4 ppl) that builds a robust and maintainable SaaS product and sometimes lead it.

I'm not giving up the idea of the famous remote company but left it aside for now.

I've also been reminded how much difficult for me is to decide to leave my hometown(for various reasons). I have to get on that too at some point.