A very powerful post by a woman who finally had had enough. Although her experiences were in the tech industry, a lot of what she went through – incessant work demands; colleagues who didn’t take the responsibility of addressing unfairness or injustice; terrible managers – is unfortunately all too real in many other industries and occupations.
With a nod to Cate Huston.
I have resigned from a 20 year career in tech. For many reasons, I decided to flip some tables in 2015. I have some not yet coherent observations on this that I will share in case they help others. I benefitted greatly from others’ posts on their decisions to leave tech and how they did so, and would like to pay it forward.
“This is my last tech job.”
A few months ago, a thought struck me out of nowhere. It was not a particularly bad day at work and there was nothing obviously awful going on. I simply thought “This is my last tech job” with absolute certainty. If I were a person of faith this might make more sense, in that it may have seemed like “a message,” but I simply observed it and thought “Huh! Ain’t that something.”
But from…
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