So it's been a decade-long round-trip from IC to management to senior manager back to IC.
And in the time you see some skills develop while others atrophy. And some new skills appear on the market that I'm shallow in.
In this case that could be Golang and Rust. (Lets not talk about how I feel about the Javascript ecosystem)
But, man, it is hard to let go of the cozy warm and lazy blanket Django and the python ecosystem gives us, isn't it?
The irony here is that I'm incredibly productive in the Django stack, but relative to the many jobs out there -- it seems many Rust and Golang positions go unfilled.
So, what is a guy to do? Daddy has to eat, and I am mercenary at heart.
So here we are -- back on the learning curve and ramping up on Golang and Rust.