To avoid google I moved everything to Runbox.com they are awesome people the business model is great (employers own the company), the price is pretty good if your domain host multiple mails, and they are in a country where privacy is protected. Linux friendly as well with all standard protocol, something protonmail seem not to care
I was in a similar situation and I moved everything to Runbox https://Runbox.com, the business and social model are amazing and running on green energy
Split in two, personal and work laptop, personal and work phone, if you can’t disable notifications , try to leave the laptop at work so you can’t work till the day after .
Considering he was working in hr, he was probably doing body rental of sap consultant and make the margin on top, if you are good in headhunting is a really scalable business
It's a trade off, you're either cut and paste blue collar programmer, piping stuff together and watching for leaks, or your a hacker/engineer guy, doing CS.