[drakonka]

You can't stick up for the American worker while starving on the streets. So in relation to your last paragraph about theoretical do-overs, I would argue that keeping the job until you actually have a replacement lined up would be the wiser choice both for your wellbeing and the potential to have a greater positive impact for others.

[unhomedcoder]

Of course in hindsight I realize that resigning was the dumbest decision ever, although there were others factors involved beyond the offshoring experience that I described. It was a company with a toxic culture that created too much stress over little things that shouldn't matter. I resigned as a pre-emptive measure because I had a good sense that they were about to fire me, because I had went straight to the CTO and told him that I was uncomfortable with picking which of my coworkers to fire. Then I found out from him that the offshoring plan was his idea all along, and that the consulting company I was contracting for had been brought in by him to take the blame for the plan. They moved me to 3 different teams in less than a month. That's a clear signal in corporate bureaucratic culture that they are building a case to fire you, by putting you on already late projects and under performing teams.

But I don't look back and say "well, I dug my own grave by resigning, therefore I deserve to suffer the consequences." Nobody deserves to be long-term homeless in the wealthiest country in history.