> BTW: Has anyone got a good, working recipee for pot brownies that a) don't taste terrible and b) don't require lab equipment? I haven't had much sucess in the past
Use a crockpot to make butter first: Add 1 oz ground up bud, 1 lb unsalted butter, and 2 cups of water. Set it on low for 8 hours, stirring occasionally. When it's done, use a strainer / cheesecloth to filter out the plant matter, pouring the butter / water mixture into a tupperware container. Squeeze as much butter as you can out of the cheesecloth into the tupperware, and put it in the fridge overnight. The (green) butter will separate from the water and solidify. Take the solid chunk of butter out of the container and place it on a paper towel to dry in the fridge.
You can melt the butter down in the microwave now that the water has been removed, and pour it into 4 oz containers to solidify into 3-4 sticks of cannabutter. Wrap each stick in foil (if you want) and freeze any that you don't plan on using right away.
Then just use some standard brownie mix that calls for 1 stick of butter.
I live in Colorado and received an offer from DigitalOcean a couple of years ago for a remote position. The pay was okay--roughly the same as the job I had at the time. But they insisted on keeping a non-compete clause in the employment contract, which can prevent an employee from joining a competitor for up to a year after their last day at DigitalOcean.
Think about that for a second. You get a job at DO, working on cloud infrastructure. If you leave that job, you can't join another cloud provider for a year. Your options are A) ask DO for explicit permission to take a new role anyway, leaving it to their discretion, B) live in CA where these clauses are invalid, C) change industries with your next job, or D) take a year off between jobs without pay.
Apparently these contracts are not uncommon in NY, MA, WA. But it was the only time I've personally encountered one, and I was not okay with limiting my future job options like that, so I turned it down.
So you've led an engineering team and been involved in every part of the development process. You built a product/service from scratch and grew an engineering team from the ground up. You defined development processes to help the team deliver high quality software. You focus your energy on whatever the highest priority is for the company and likely spend a lot of time helping your team members move past obstacles. You probably don't do as much coding anymore, because that is the least useful way to spend your time and expertise when you're juggling these other responsibilities. This lack of coding might feel a little weird if you still consider yourself a developer, but your work has a force multiplying effect across the entire team. You described this as sitting in between an engineer and a manager.
If I got that right, you have just described a "tech lead" role, and your experience is far more valuable than a standard developer role. You can find those roles at companies big and small, depending on your preference. They're easier to find through your network than through job postings. They carry a lot of responsibility, but they can also be highly rewarding.
You're the only one who can decide what you WANT to do with that experience though. Do you want to find another tech lead role? Update your resume to emphasize your leadership experience and technical background. Development role? Emphasize those aspects of your job and start grinding on leetcode. Manager role? Emphasize your leadership experience and how you helped grow the team. You're well positioned to move into any of these roles, depending on what you want from your next job.
Use a crockpot to make butter first: Add 1 oz ground up bud, 1 lb unsalted butter, and 2 cups of water. Set it on low for 8 hours, stirring occasionally. When it's done, use a strainer / cheesecloth to filter out the plant matter, pouring the butter / water mixture into a tupperware container. Squeeze as much butter as you can out of the cheesecloth into the tupperware, and put it in the fridge overnight. The (green) butter will separate from the water and solidify. Take the solid chunk of butter out of the container and place it on a paper towel to dry in the fridge.
You can melt the butter down in the microwave now that the water has been removed, and pour it into 4 oz containers to solidify into 3-4 sticks of cannabutter. Wrap each stick in foil (if you want) and freeze any that you don't plan on using right away.
Then just use some standard brownie mix that calls for 1 stick of butter.