Living the dream after making 85k for 2 and a half years working in tech. I don’t plan to go back, but I’m not ignoring recruiters offering big money.
However I do want to enjoy myself and leave the traditional work headspace and explore more of my local area with my daughter, developing a healthy routine with my body, and re-evaluating the role and importance of money in my life (as the dollar’s value crumbles and life expenses grow )
Also planning to downsize and move from renting a house with an extra bedroom to a smaller apartment. My unemployment benefits are set to last a little bit of time but I am ambivalent about work. I am grateful to have been a remote worker during the pandemic while also welcoming my first child.
But I can’t forget that I fought. Fought HARD. For THREE days PTO for paternal leave. I was a contract worker at the time and they didn’t even want me full remote. Thought COVID would blow over… I was barely barely outside the 90 day first hire probation.
So fuck corporate America. I hope my team misses me cuz I did a lot of great things. And if they called tomorrow I’d go thru with the interview just to laugh at them.
Fuck all of it. The stress is worth it. I’ll survive.
Edit
The severance was some BS also, but it was offered 3months AFTER my entire team was laid off in the form of an ultimatum over very extremely petty issues related to my performance. All this after a non-communicated managerial annual review that was swept under the rug by one of the four managers I had that year it’s a shitshow. I was never managed properly then I got the disciplinary action.
Easiest walk ever