Review of 2024

2024 had a lot going on. Just not so much in anything I blogged about or side projects I created.

I spent January looking for jobs. There was a surge in the number posted in comparison to December, and I had to do take-home tests, which took up time.

In March I started a new job and in June I got made redundant from it. It’s a familiar tale, but it’s reading other people’s stories about getting made redundant that make me realise just how lucky I got to be starting a new job a month later.

It was one of the few jobs I heard back from, and the only one who offered me an interview. Fortunately they offered me the job and it was one that I wanted.

What it’s meant that any public activity has felt like it’s all about getting a job and not about me getting to have fun. Which is annoying because there’s a side project I’d really like to do that would actually be useful to me. I’m hoping to do it in 2025!

In a year’s time I’d also like to still be employed with the same company, but I don’t have 100% control over that (and if someone offered me a 6 figure salary to play with bunnies/kittens/read books all day I wouldn’t say no).