The solution to the problem is 15 years before now, not today when there are so many conflicting force out to crush you.
If you try to get out lots of people blame you or sue you.
I got out. Not by being smart or inciteful but by being, as other people called it "lazy".
IT Director of 45 people, high pressure environment, 6 figure salary in 2001, DOT.COM style but not in silicon Valley. I was at my Peter Principle Level of incompetence. This was my 3rd dot.com job running at a frenzied increase in responsibility.
No golden exits. Just layoffs when money ran out.
Luckily it went bankruptcy too. Dot com bust happened. No new Directorship to step into.
To get back on the hamster wheel I would have to get an MBA. Other colleagues did. It was not for me. I would have imploded too, if I tried.
Lots of acquaintances wondered why I was so under employed after 20 years of ladder climbing. In absolute $ I am still not back to the number I made back then. Life since then has given me other stresses that would have made today unbearable if I continued.
Everyone who is under those crushing stress today had a set of decision that (their own and other peoples) that corralled them into the situation. After a while there seems no escape.
The people who "tsk tsked" when I left things behind did not consider the consequence of the future.
I am at the end of my career (45 years since first $ in IT). I have "enough money". People are still telling me I should work hard and achieve more. Really want to retire and contribute to society in another way.
The solution to the problem is 15 years before now, not today when there are so many conflicting force out to crush you.
If you try to get out lots of people blame you or sue you.
I got out. Not by being smart or inciteful but by being, as other people called it "lazy".
IT Director of 45 people, high pressure environment, 6 figure salary in 2001, DOT.COM style but not in silicon Valley. I was at my Peter Principle Level of incompetence. This was my 3rd dot.com job running at a frenzied increase in responsibility.
No golden exits. Just layoffs when money ran out.
Luckily it went bankruptcy too. Dot com bust happened. No new Directorship to step into. To get back on the hamster wheel I would have to get an MBA. Other colleagues did. It was not for me. I would have imploded too, if I tried.
Lots of acquaintances wondered why I was so under employed after 20 years of ladder climbing. In absolute $ I am still not back to the number I made back then. Life since then has given me other stresses that would have made today unbearable if I continued.
Everyone who is under those crushing stress today had a set of decision that (their own and other peoples) that corralled them into the situation. After a while there seems no escape.
The people who "tsk tsked" when I left things behind did not consider the consequence of the future.
I am at the end of my career (45 years since first $ in IT). I have "enough money". People are still telling me I should work hard and achieve more. Really want to retire and contribute to society in another way.