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I stopped because I couldn’t keep up the pace. Headaches. Couldn’t work so hard any more, totally fried. Loved the team and the job, and the customers. I waited 6 months until 7 year project was being reset for next iteration. I worked hard right up to my last day. Boss tried to keep me on in a reduced role but by then I really needed to rest and didn’t want to make any binding commitments.
Sure I could have dialed it back but no Adrenalin in that. I like being hungry and doing impossible stuff.
Took more than 2 years after quitting before I could feel the air in my lungs and want to do math again. In hindsight I should have had some sort of medical leave, too much thinking is pretty unhealthy.
I’m not ‘retired’, more like between jobs. I signed up for another intense year during covid, and I might do it again. Main thing the work needs to align with my passion.
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