This post I saw on Threads a few weeks ago has been living rent-free in my head:
Millennials spend their 20s trying to climb the corporate ladder, then spend their 30s trying to quietly climb back down.
It stopped me in my tracks, because that’s exactly what I’ve been doing. I took several weeks off writing this newsletter, and here’s why:
After three years at Spot AI, I made the bittersweet—and frankly heartbreaking—decision to leave. It wasn’t sudden. It wasn’t dramatic. (Okay, it was a little dramatic.) It was a slow realization that the career path I was on, the one I had worked so hard to follow, was mentally and physically harming me.
From the outside, everything looked great. I was leading multiple teams, expanding my scope, trusted at the exec level. I was a highly influential individual at the company. I’d built systems, led my team to ship critical parts of our product, and helped close major deals. I was succeeding by every traditional measure, and I was proud of that.
But I was also burned out.
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