Mostly good.<p>The last few years have been rather tumultuous for all the usual reasons - the pandemic, seeing the team I managed (including me!) get laid off out of the blue just as the country entered its first covid shut-down.<p>For an encore, I had just started building a house and were only a couple of weeks past the point where I could have pulled the plug on that without incurring significant losses - so, unemployed and committed to increasing my debt just as income disappeared and nobody hired. Oops.<p>I've since found new work in the same sector I got laid off from, and at my current employer the culture is vastly better - from churning away at a large multinational to being an appreciated contributor in a small company, I really feel like Steve Jobs' quip - why join the navy when you can be a pirate? I certainly feel like a pirate now, in the Sid Meier's 'Pirates' kind of way.<p>Much more fun than being in the navy.<p>On a personal level, I believe I am past peak busy time with the kids - the youngest one is six now, and I finally, for the first time in more than a decade, find myself occasionally having time off to do something I enjoy, rather than something I have to do.<p>I've taken up photography again (was serious to the point where I had to decide back in the late paleolithic whether I wanted to become a professional photographer or go to engineering school - engineering won)<p>Also, I've started digging into the backlog of books and movies I've accumulated over the past decade, and even started building a decent home theater in the barn; disposable income is now higher than it was before I took on more debt while building a house, as my new job pays better and I also have a stable income from a couple of side gigs which basically are hobbies, but people are willing to pay me for the end product, which pleases (and surprises!) me no end.<p>So, all things considered, I probably should have sprung for a 'Very good' rather than 'Mostly good'.<p>Good poll, it made me sit down to consider how I felt for a few minutes. Surprisingly good, as it turns out. Thanks!