I left my last significant job 2-ish years ago. I've had a few contract gigs for a few months here and there since. One of them was probably intended to be full-time, but their pay was atrocious and some of the worst management I've ever worked with. I've been fairly laid back about looking for a new gig but also developed myself by learning a new programming language. I have had a fair number of interviews. Just last week I declined to do a takehome coding test that was really vague and uninteresting even though the recruiter said they really liked me and had constructed that takehome test specifically for me.

Most of the companies that I'm interested in seem to require me to move to places I don't want to move to. And most of the ones open to remote work seem pretty uninspiring.