Good Jobs #86: Should I stay or should I go now?
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.
Moving on
In three parts
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.
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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,
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
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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