i made a very hard decision this year - live laugh blog
I wasn’t just letting go of a job, I was letting go of how I saw myself and how I imagined others saw me. I disappeared for a while. I walked, I slowed down, I lived more internally. Then when I was ready to explore more actively and come back into the world, I was very intentional about maintaining a level of silence and stillness.
Lola • Splash
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 inevitability: I
... See moreKasra • Jumping into the void
But I am also preparing for many moments of awkwardness and self-doubt. Parties: “What do you do?” “I’m…between things.” People generally find this exciting and cool, but you also hear the occasional “you’re doing WHAT? In THIS economy??”