A month ago, I decided it was time to hang up my boots at work and take a break at the end of this year. I have had an average career having worked for 6 years at the same concern and 7.5 years with the same core team. Obviously technical and financial growth became one of my concerns and there were several career related mistakes I had made in the past, but there are other things I would like to touch upon.

Too many things at a time

My major hope this year had been that I would get an invite as a skilled migrant to another country, but things didn’t go well, the country tightened up restrictions and I wasn’t invited in the rounds till now. There was no clear Plan B and there are multiple things running in my mind, so thinking about alternate directions and taking a call feels the way to go.

Working on problems or things you would to solve

From my experience I had realized two things - neither working on the cutting edge stack nor building an app from scratch nor working on the product with legacy stack for business reasons will bring you peace. The fact that I didn’t make course corrections left me with fewer options, to match up with the level I wanna be, there are efforts and work to be put, so working on upskilling myself is another major factor behind the decision.

Life is about living and just about survival

I understand that survival is important, but I feel life cannot be lived merely to survive, I realise it had been one of the reasons why switching to other jobs or proactively active taking decisions had been hard to me. Much of the last decade of my life has been purely about survival and living in a dysfunctional home doesn’t help either. I realized a few major issues,

1. Your environment is controlled by someone else and you are moving in someone else’s direction.