Career Pivot

Almost nobody leaves tech in a single decisive move. The gap between privately deciding something has to change and actually going is usually measured in months or years, and most of the real work happens inside it.

These articles are about that gap: working out what you actually want after a decade of optimising for the wrong things, calculating the runway you genuinely need, negotiating your exit, and preparing while still turning up every day.

If you're at the very start of this, the complete guide to leaving tech maps the six stages and will point you at the right one to begin from.