[Scifihiker7091]

Money does not equate to happiness. You met your fiduciary responsibilities in negotiating the best sales price possible for your investors, but you didn’t negotiate for the best life possible during your handcuffitude. Everything is renegotiable if the cost to the acquirer is less than the value of you staying.

Take three days off: call in sick if you have to. Drive a half day away to somewhere else. With a pad and pen, spend the time designing what you WANT to do during your servitude. Work four 10 hour days and enjoy a three day weekend? Get to spend a few days each month visiting the other divisions—-maybe they could use an interim division exec for awhile. Or?

When you return to the office, set up a meeting with the “decider” and show them your finalized list and ask this one question:

“What can you give me on this list to make me want to stay?”

Good luck!

[tlb]

Agree. You have leverage, not just due to sunk costs but because people in the organization staked their reputations on the acquisition being successful. So you may be able to write your own job description.

But many big companies are so broken that there's no job description that could make an entrepreneurial person happy within.

[anonymous29385]

Thank you for the advice. There's a lot of good ideas in here to think about.