Stop Giving an Old Employer a Job in Your New Career
You can leave a company and still carry some of its rules into the next one. Career mileage gives you valuable pattern recognition, along with old expectations that may need new evidence before they deserve to keep making decisions for you.
Your Employer Has Enough of Your Attention
Sometimes the workday ends while the employer keeps clocking hours in your head. Attention becomes expensive when a situation has already shown you what you need to know and continues occupying your evening anyway.
Your Feed Is Part of Your Career Environment
Curating your feed is environmental design, because you’re deciding what kind of career thinking gets to live close enough to influence your own.
You Got Use To The Smell
Employer response can become the center of a career through criticism, recognition, compensation, promotion, or silence. The response gives you information. Career ownership asks you to keep your own evidence and judgment close enough to decide what it means.