Falling back and building back up
In 2017 I was determined to leave IT finance; I had enough of Banking and Mortgage, so I took a nice long break spent time w/ the family and our new one year old. And found my dream job; I mean literally after interviewing I had literal dreams of working there; walking on the bluffs and solving complex software quality engineering problems, (don't judge my dreams). Over the course of 2018 my commute was over an hour long even with a few speeding tickets, BUT it was worth it. I loaded up every leadership book I could listen too and bought in hook line and sinker to my new gig's philosophy went from 1990's on premise infrastructure all .NET with Test Professional, Selenium web driver/C# and MS Office to AWS, ruby, Cyprus, jira, confluence and Google office. The rate of learning, lack of sleep and stress had my my skin break out in eczema that a still have today, i had put on weight, even though we had on-site yoga and gyms w/ my commute I would sacrifice the work out to see...