We watched our parents stay in jobs they hated for 30 years because that’s what you were supposed to do. That playbook has been retired.
The “safe” corporate ladder? It’s been getting kicked out from under us for two decades. Loyalty got us layoffs and frozen pensions.
You’ve got skills from juggling three recessions and constant “doing more with less.” That’s worth something, even if your current employer doesn’t see it.
Yeah, the money might be tighter for a bit. But we survived on ramen before, and at least this time it’s by choice.
We’ve potentially got another 15-20 working years – that’s enough time to build something that doesn’t make us miserable.
The generation that invented reinvention can do it one more time. This time for ourselves, not for some company that’ll replace us with “organizational restructuring” anyway.
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