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What was the point in your career where you realized corporate was not for you?

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Simon_Ferocious68 Apr 1, 2026 +1
this is a really great question - I genuinely think it's what broke my brain a little bit - when it comes to envisioning a future. What do you guys think?
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Final-Lie78 Apr 1, 2026 +1
It was almost immediate for me, I am currently still in corporate and I hate the culture of corporate in general not the company (company really chill) and the just the idea of being a number. A metric in somebodies quarterly earning report.
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Simon_Ferocious68 Apr 1, 2026 +1
..I think it may be a journey we're all on, and barely coming to grips with really.
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Aggravating-Fox8553 Apr 1, 2026 +1
watching a guy who gave 15 years of his life to the company get laid off over a 5-minute zoom call to 'cut costs'. his desk was completely cleared out before lunch. i realized right then that loyalty means absolutely nothing to them and we are all just numbers on a spreadsheet.
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Final-Lie78 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Exactly my point man, people love to preach security but I believe a corporate job is one of the least secure things you can do! I look at it’s a s a stepping stone I wish I could post a picture of the oracle layoff of over 30k employees through a 3 paragraph email…
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Dear_Recognition_555 Apr 1, 2026 +1
It took me 7 years to realize because I love what I’m doing back then. It came to the point where I’m always a great performer at work and I really enjoyed it but when a new incompetent manager came, I realized that the management is not really looking at the performance and how you bring money to the table, it’s more on tenureship, benchmarking and hierarchy. Which at all is disappointing. I like my career but politics is not for me though.
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Final-Lie78 Apr 1, 2026 +1
What industry?
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Final-Lie78 Apr 1, 2026 +1
Have you ever thought about doing you own thing in that industry?
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IcyWelcome9700 Apr 1, 2026 +1
When everything I did for the company had to be broken down to a number. Then that number determined whether I get a raise or promotion. Sorry, I'm a person not a number. Competing for time off Having to call a manager if I was sick so they could "hear that I'm sick"
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