Ask HN: How are you? How did the pandemic affect you?

The world's response to the pandemic undermined my belief that the human civilization can handle an existential crisis rationally and efficiently. Covid is of course nowhere near an existential crisis. But still, we so readily plunged ourselves into an irrational, politicized, polarized, radicalized, univariate, low-resolution mess, that if the real s*t hits the fan, I am not sure we stand a chance. I never lost so much trust in so many people, institutions, things and concepts at such a rapid pace. The fragility of our humanity became to me acutely apparent.

2020 was an anxious blur that broke me. 2021 I took my mental and physical health much more seriously, found a great psychiatrist and began medication, found a much higher paying job at a fully remote company, and am now the fittest I’ve ever been in my life.

I got sick last March, before testing was a thing, I've had long Covid type symptoms ever since, had all the tests, in theory I'm normal... but get winded super easy.

My skillset is ancient, my favorite language is Pascal, never liked C/C++, which seems to have eaten the world. I'm not sure how I'm going to get back into the world of the working (from home).

0 of 5 stars, would not buy again.

I left my job, and despite receiving great offers and opportunities (over 6 figures), I haven't taken another salaried position.

I can't bring myself to dedicate 7-8 hours a day to:

- work on some relatively insignificant problem,

- fill shareholder pockets,

- be away from my family.