Then there was that time I quit my job because I was completely unrespected by my boss. Six months later they called me up and said they hadn't found a replacement for me and I told them they weren't going to find a replacement for me unless they got rid of him. Two days later I looked on LinkedIn and saw he'd been fired.
For me that was the beginning of a period of a few years where I got sporadic consulting jobs and did a huge amount of business development with salespeople that couldn't sell.
It turned out better than I could have hoped. I eat a proper breakfast every morning. I get 8.5 hours of sleep. I spend my time reading, listening to podcasts, and spending more time with family than ever before.
It’s helped me understand that hard work has maybe 30% to do with success. 70% is luck, and depending on which company you’re at, that 70% is mostly politics and some luck.
It sounds like I’m living a dream, but I’m still emotionally and physically recovering from my previous job. Im not a religious person, but I pray that company gets shutdown by the government, and it’s sociopath executives are thrown into jail.
It’s an interesting thought experiment to think what would happen if Amazon fails. It can bring down a big chunk of US economy with it.