Ask HN: Quitting without anything lined up?
What I didn't anticipate was being incredibly burnt out. I want to quit and not work for a while. Issue is I heard that's "bad" around the Internet.
Here's what I have going for me:
* I can live with my parents at any time for as long as I want no questions asked.
* About 10 months in I started getting regular pings (2x per week) via email/LinkedIn from recruiters for various other jobs, varying from startups to Uber/Facebook/Google.
* I have been shipping production-quality software since 2007. Based on my experience at this startup I believe I have the equivalent of 8 YoE but that's hard to put on paper.
* I have friends at various other companies that could refer me.
Basically my career goal is to bootstrap a SaaS company and either turn it into a lifestyle business or get acquired for like $1-5M. The job market is a backup plan for me. I've had 2 engineering jobs at this point and I fucking hated both of them.
Will this recruiter outreach stop once I quit? I'm also kinda worried about closing the door to Google/Facebook/Uber but honestly I'd rather work somewhere that let me work part time remote so I could focus on my own stuff. Working on other people's code blows and I'd prefer to do as little of that as I possibly can.