Had a good meeting with my manager on Wednesday. He’s been talking with our CEO about me and the other guy (who hasn’t gone in once) and he thinks we’re going to have a little more flexibility to set our schedules than it seemed. I worked from Newark this week so I’ve still only gone in once since the New Year. 

I was all set to put in my two weeks on Tuesday but I think I might be good for a bit longer. I’m going in on Tuesday because the ticket I’m working on makes sense for being in the office to meet with my manager. But I’m not planning on going in any other day. 

Basically I think we called his bluff and he realized keeping us is more important than seeing us every day. 

Had an interview today, honestly not sure how it actually went. It was a one on one conversation with the head of product. Seemed like a good talk, but I definitely didn't like the answer I gave to one of the questions. It was hard to tell exactly what the company does from their website, so I was a little iffy going into the interview, but it was actually pretty interesting. I'll take the second interview if they offer it, it would be with a panel of like 4 people. He never used the word "if...we have a second interview", he said "the next interview will be..." so hopefully that's a good sign.

The current job is a lot better now that the expectation that we're in the office every day has kinda just vanished. In the past two weeks I've gone in both Tuesdays, and last Thursday in the early afternoon to join a happy hour after work. If the interview process fizzles out I won't actively look for another job as long as the current arrangement continues to work for everyone.

Ended up turning down the second interview at the place mentioned above. 

Went through another period of shit where I wanted to leave and connected with a recruited for another job. Interviewed 3 times (luckily just 30 minute general discussions with a few people) and in the end they went in another direction. They liked me but they also suffered from a few issues I disliked about my current job so they were afraid I wouldn't be happy there either.

For whatever reason that caused my mindset about my current company to shift and I am as happy as I've been since I've been here (just over 10 months now). I guess it finally clicked on what I want the next step in my career to be and I'm pretty sure I can make it happen at my current gig. We'll see how the next couple months go, but I'm optimistic I can make this work a lot longer.