Automattic is a great company with an amazing vision and purpose. And two months ago I left. There wasn’t any crazy drama (although that would make this post more interesting). I simply wasn’t working on things that excited me. And eventually I to got into a “good enough” slump and that left me drained. I missed that feeling you get after a solid day of work and you want to tell everyone the amazing things you’re working on.
Work is such a big part of our lives and our identities and I didn’t want that part to be unfulfilled.
I’m mostly writing this for myself but if you’re thinking about leaving your job I hope it can provide guidance.
Should I Leave?
When you get into a slump your first thought might be to run away as fast as possible. But this is a mistake – everyone gets into slumps. Almost everything in life that’s worth doing is hard.
The trick is strategic quitting. Seth Godin talks about this in his book The Dip:
Stick with the dips that are likely to pan out, quit the dips that aren’t likely to pan out, and immediately quick the cul-de-sacs. The biggest obstacle to life is the inability to quit soon enough.
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