| I lost my job twice in 8 months: First time I was brought into a joint venture that was going into the ground as the 2 investors wanted to split. Board meeting 2 weeks into my job, and the decision was taken. They should have never hired my position.
Second time was a clear cultural non-fit, I have very consensus oriented and the founder needed everything for yesterday. I took the 2 packages I had and went into consulting, I love helping people solve their problems, found a new love for tech, that I had lost in a 15 years of management I had done. I picked up new skills from the teams I was working with. Since then, I have joined partners, developed an IoT consulting business (with a healthy mix of blue-chip clients and startups) and we are about to launch a product in the Agtech space. The layoffs were a shock initially, and I had a small burnout after the 2nd, but I love people, so I kept going to network with people I had enjoyed working with and I got a first contract 3 days a week. In short: - got fired, - burned out, - talked to my friends/network, - got a small consulting job with an ex-coleague, - learned to love tech again, - now my business is growing because I surround myself with good people that I trust. edit: formatting |