Last toot I said I'm going to be employed. It's a quick decision, both to me and to the company. It's a fairly small company, around 30 people including the programmers and administrators. And it's not a high salary job (with the current FX rate, it's around 1k USD pre-tax), but the environment is very people-friendly, not like big companies where everyone is bonded by the rules. You need to go home and handle something? Sure, bring your laptop and they'll count you as working from home. If you really can't handle both, you can just ask and normally you get several days off.

The most important factor to make me decide to work there is no frequent overtime working. There will be overtime working, but most of them are predictable and you will be informed beforehand. And you can choose if you want to get money compensation or save it as an extra holiday and use it later. I don't know about other areas, but in China, man, this is the best you can ask for.

(Context: the average weekly working hours are 49 hours. Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1391557/weekly-average-working-hours-china/ )

The person who interviewed me is one of the bosses charges the tech things. I can tell he knows programming since we can understand what we're talking: blockchain, LLM, JVM, etc. It's a delightful interview. But that day is Friday and it's almost 5 pm (4:30). So we agree to meet on Monday. I'll show up in the morning and they do the rest, contract, etc.

I hope everything goes well. And thanks to you, my friends, for bearing my nonsense in the past year and congrate me on my (possiblely) new job.