The Good Jobs Report

Share this post

Good Jobs #86: Should I stay or should I go now?

www.goodjobs.report

Good Jobs #86: Should I stay or should I go now?

If I stay there will be trouble. If I go there will be remote and Boise-area tech jobs at Wikimedia Foundation, Mailchimp, Attentive, Fortress, Help Scout, Highwire and more.

Apr 28, 2023
1
Share
Share this post

Good Jobs #86: Should I stay or should I go now?

www.goodjobs.report

Moving on

In three parts

photo of person reach out above the water
Photo by Nikko Macaspac

Part 1: A couple months ago

A designer reached out to me and asked if I thought she was going to be fired.

She told me her situation… she’s at a large corporation working on a very small piece of a product of which the company had a few dozen. She was struggling to make any impact and losing motivation.

On top of that, the people she originally interviewed with were not the ones she was working with every day. Her manager lacked experience and was stretched thin. She wasn’t getting the guidance she needed and, admittedly, wasn’t interested in putting the work in to fix things, at least not anymore. She’d been having fewer calls with her manager as time went on. When they did meet it was transactional and only seemed to make things worse.

She was visibly defeated and lost. It felt like a giant black rain cloud hanging above both of us.

I asked her a few open-ended questions:

  • Is this salvageable?

  • Is it worth salvaging?

  • What would make you enjoy work again?

I did not tell her if I thought she was going to be fired. Who am I to know that? But I could tell emotionally she’d already quit and was in a holding pattern until something changes.

Part 2: A couple weeks ago

I hopped on another call with the designer. This call was very different.

She’d been laid off.

I couldn’t tell that by her demeanor though—she was smiling, laughing, and present. She was on the floor playing with her infant son as we chatted.

She told me the layoff pushed her into a change she needed to make a long time ago. The stress of a job she hated weighed on her. It made her a different person.

She was going to enjoy a short break and start looking again.

Part 3: A couple days ago

I jumped on another call with her this week.

She told me she had a handful of interviews already and had more on the way. She’s also doing her due diligence this time. Making sure she’s at a place where she can see impact. Working at a company with people who will support her. And running the f*ck away from any place that remotely smelled of her last employer.

###

The person from part 1 doesn’t exist anymore. I hope it never returns.

A job can change a person for better or worse. Seek the former.

Onward,

Loren

P.S. I’ve been reposting interesting jobs on LinkedIn. Give Good Jobs Report a follow over there if that sounds like something you’d be into.


DEV

Senior Mobile Software Engineer at Help Scout

Remote | Full-time | Salary: $156–168K

Software Engineer at Highwire

Boise | Full-time

DevOps Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure at Airtable

Remote | Full-time

Senior Software Development Engineer at Remitly

Remote | Full-time | Salary: $159–210K

Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer at Fortress

Remote | Full-time

Still hiring: Data Architect at Northwest Lineman College

Meridian | Full-time | Salary: $84–94K


Good jobs need to be known

Hundreds of Boise-area professionals read and share the Good Jobs Report each week. Submit a job and it could appear in a future issue. Only the good ones though.

Submit a job


PRODUCT, DESIGN, RESEARCH

Senior Product Manager at Clearwater Analytics

Boise | Full-time

Lead UX Designer at Wikimedia Foundation

Remote | Full-time | Salary: $119–186K


SALES, CX, MARKETING

Customer Success Manager at Mailchimp

Remote | Full-time

Junior Member Support Specialist at Trust & Will

Remote | Part-time | Pay: $18-20/hr

Marketing Project Manager at Saalt

Boise | Full-time

Sales Development Representative at Fitted

Eagle | Full-time

Enterprise Account Executive at Attentive

Remote | Full-time | Salary: $98–135K


ZEN

Thanks for reading this week’s Good Jobs Report. Subscribe for free to receive new and interesting jobs every other Friday.

1
Share
Share this post

Good Jobs #86: Should I stay or should I go now?

www.goodjobs.report
Top
New

No posts

Ready for more?

© 2023 The Good Jobs Report
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start WritingGet the app
Substack is the home for great writing