I've been at my job for eight years (unbelievable that it's flown by so fast.) And for the most part I've enjoyed it. I've liked most of the people I've worked with and the work has been pretty satisfying. There have been hugely stressful times for sure such as production issues that had to be fixed and long weekends and nights. Thankfully that hasn't been a common occurrence for a while as the app I worked on has been stable.

But that all went down the rabbit hole a few months ago with a new initiative coming out of left field. The entire company stopped active development on all apps and a few of us were tasked with evaluating getting the current apps to the cloud, and now evaluating replacement apps. Feature development was dropped and probably will never be picked back up. This was a huge hit for me and my teammates. We're still working through the fact that the years we've spent on this one app are now obsolete.

The last months have been incredibly stressful with worry about losing jobs, or trying to find something meaningful to do. This is the most odd, stressful, depressing experiences I've had in a job. People have left, people talk about leaving. It's hard to know if one should try to ride it out even though the future is probably a different role than software developer on server side code.

All this has left me rather depressed, unenergized, anxious, stressed and very out of sorts. I think I really need a change in my life, but I also have a steady job. That's something that is hard to give up and the prospect of interviewing is not something I relish.

I'm not sure where I'll end up beyond trying to hold this job down for as long as possible even though I don't think it's being good my well being.

</end rant on current situation in life>