This time when the music stopped playing, I had a stable job. I'm holding on to my current job like it's my first born child. I feel bad for developers who are in-between jobs now, I know it's really rough out there, and I know what it's like to go on interviews and see happy well-paid people with far less experience going about their day, while looking for a job was my only job and it paid nothing. I've sat at a bus stop in tears because I didn't know where my next rent payment was coming from, right after being in the fanciest offices in town with some of the dumbest developers that wouldn't hire me because they were protecting their job, they knew I was too good for their team.

Now I'm a lot older, and my current problem is ageism. My current job may be the last one I ever get unless the job market improves significantly.