I, Too, Left the Tech Industry

With a nod to Cate Huston.

I have resigned from a 20 year career in tech. For many reasons, I decided to flip some tables in 2015. I have some not yet coherent observations on this that I will share in case they help others. I benefitted greatly from others’ posts on their decisions to leave tech and how they did so, and would like to pay it forward.

« This is my last tech job. »
A few months ago, a thought struck me out of nowhere. It was not a particularly bad day at work and there was nothing obviously awful going on. I simply thought « This is my last tech job » with absolute certainty. If I were a person of faith this might make more sense, in that it may have seemed like « a message, » but I simply observed it and thought « Huh! Ain’t that something. »

But from…