No one knows.

I think a true Sr shortage is likely decade+ away. So if you need money you gotta make ends meet somehow.

I’m leaning into the AI space, becoming proficient at understanding and developing harnesses for different purposes, running local models, adjusting to context switching more often than not, etc.

I’m currently working a short term AI Cyber gig for a financial firm I already had a relationship with, but then taking time off to tinker.

Dev/Sys/Net Operations, Cyber. All great fields for leaning into AI

If you can afford taking a few years off in the first place, you can also afford starting a company and doing your own projects for a while. Don’t leave the field behind, put some software on app stores and pick your topics by what skills you want to learn or maintain. Maybe it even makes money.

Uh... Where have you been looking? There are loads of remote jobs in Europe.