Saved by Jay Matthews
Death of a Salesgirl
I was just there at The Firm as a stopover, to get the skills, I would have said at the time; this was not really me, I would have said, but it was a thin defense. How quickly I was becoming an icky person in these small, important moments. This is to say nothing of the actual impact of the work I was doing, which, I believe, was marginally useful ... See more
I Felt Important
Britt Gage added
The perils on working for the wrong reasons
So I’m taking my belated gap year, I’m “dropping out” of the tech career ladder. At some point you run out of excuses (save more money, figure out immigration stuff, also these layoffs, also the uncertainty, and what if you just spiral, or what if you fail, blah blah blah). By the end it felt less like a decision and more like an inevitab
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Keely Adler added
I felt like I wasn’t being true to myself, basically, and that was the most painful part. I was so far down the rabbit hole of doing something I didn’t believe in and it was my whole life. Whereas with consulting, you’re always in and out. So even if something’s really whack, it ends. If it’s your job, it never ends.
are.na • An Interview With Emily Segal
Keely Adler added
Nine months into self-employment, I had landed four different projects and proved to myself that I could “make it” working on my own. But I had a problem: those projects were the same kind I had done in my consulting career, and as my financial anxiety diminished, I discovered that I didn’t actually want to build a life around this kind of work.
Paul Millerd • Good Work : Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition
Nine months into self-employment, I had landed four different projects and proved to myself that I could “make it” working on my own. But I had a problem: those projects were the same kind I had done in my consulting career, and as my financial anxiety diminished, I discovered that I didn’t actually want to build a life around this kind of work.
Paul Millerd • Good Work : Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition
Nine months into self-employment, I had landed four different projects and proved to myself that I could “make it” working on my own. But I had a problem: those projects were the same kind I had done in my consulting career, and as my financial anxiety diminished, I discovered that I didn’t actually want to build a life around this kind of work.
Paul Millerd • Good Work : Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition
Most people have an acute sense of the challenges that lay ahead. They can predict the criticism they’ll face and the insecurity they’ll feel. This is why many, including me, refuse the “call to adventure” as long as possible. Before quitting my job, I spent several years critiquing the corporate world from within, convinced I could help “fix” it.
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