---- Hello fellow remoteindians 👋 Wanted to share an update from my side. ⚠️ It’s not a good one. My remote work contract as a ruby api dev was terminated because of a rightsizing exercise in my company. The finances were in a bad state and unfortunately a lot of people had to be released. I do have a one month notice period but I wanted to clear my head out so that I can plan better. I am perceiving this as an opportunity to pursue better paths. Some thoughts in my head are - Move to elixir because I’ve been having a lot of fun learning the language and working in it - Work on a toptal project ( I am a toptaler but never had the time to do one. Would like to experience that ) - Take a 3-6 month break and focus on my health and improving my portfolio Any ideas on the above three topics are highly appreciated 🤗 --- Surprisingly, I find myself pretty calm. I feel the below reasons might have a hand in it 🤔 - Optionality ( because of the tech skills and investing in learning ) - Solid savings - Been in similar situations before in my career ( antifragile as Nassim Taleb would say ) - Reading a lot of stoic text ( I think it must be compulsory reading for every remote dev ) - Being part of the a community like Remote Indian ❤️ Pure Business. Nothing personal. Time to move on 💪🏼