Career Decisions

Eleventh revision of the same slide. I move a box two millimeters to the left, sit back, and look at it, and I have no feeling at all about whether it's better than it was.

An old colleague called me about a role. Below my level, honestly — a job I could have done seven years ago — but at a company that pays properly, twenty percent more than I make n...

I've been a manager for eight months. I have four people. One of them is the reason I've been sleeping badly.

He asked me in the hallway, in the way people ask when they've already noticed something: "Hey — everything good?"

An old colleague asked me last week, in a message that took him three paragraphs to get to the point: would I be a reference for a job he's applying for?

I've been on this team for four years. Two weeks ago my manager offered me the lead role — it opened when the person above us left, and she said it's mine if I want it. Five people...

I can tell you the vesting date to the month. I know what percentage is mine at year seven versus year nine. I have a spreadsheet with the number in it, and I check that spreadshee...

Three weeks ago I shipped something with an error in it.

The spreadsheet says no. I've modeled it six ways — I've given the pay cut a haircut, I've given my savings a cushion, I've added a line for the lost bonus and another for the reti...

My old manager texted me at Christmas. The message is still in my phone, and I've reread it more times than anything I've received since: "Door's always open. You know that, right?...