I'm financially independent. I don't have to work to pay the bills, but I do like working on interesting and challenging projects. I just want to be able to pick and choose what I work on.

I have a large network on the leading business network site with lots of endorsements, but it seems to be doing no good.

I'm in San Diego, and there are a lot of unemployed hardware engineers like myself here at the moment. EE's aren't much in demand. I need to stay in San Diego as we have family obligations which need tending to.

I was employed for over 35 years between two companies. The first for 10 years, and the second for 25 years.

I regret not changing jobs more often, but my degree is in CS not EE and that made it harder to change jobs.

Right now, I'm keeping myself busy with open source hardware and firmware projects on github.