Don’t leave your job during a downturn

2bebetter
6 min readMay 12, 2024

A friend used to work as a front-end developer in a top 100 company. He worked diligently for five years and was highly appreciated by his leaders and was promoted to middle management.

In the third month after becoming management, the group parachuted in someone to take his place.

Facing the new leader, he felt very unconvinced; facing his colleagues, he looked like everyone was laughing at him.

At the same time, the leader assigned him a new business line.

The new business is in the exploratory stage and there are no performance rewards, which means his income will drop sharply.

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During that time, he was having a hard time going to work every day.

After enduring it for a month, he submitted his resignation to the company.

He originally thought that with his previous work experience, it would not be a problem to find a job with similar pay.

Reality gave him a loud slap in the face, and all the resumes he submitted for two consecutive months fell into the dust.

I finally found a job, but neither the resources nor the treatment were comparable to those of my previous company.

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