This is too real for me. I worked as a college hire PM for almost 8 years at $BigTech company on a single product that got re-orged around divisions as it evolved to a mature product that would likely never grow nor disappear. I wasn't there for its inception, but a major threshold point that was enough to give me the context to maintain it with raises every two years in perpetuity.

I just got the hell out back in September. I went from the IT/cloud/DevOps automation space to running the backend for a "make everything easy" web dev -> hosting company. I'm not sure that it's better, but it's different. And it's given me enough perspective to know for sure now that I probably should've gotten out two years ago. Pandemic perspective and all that.

Something something this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1768/

I cited it as I stayed....