Where we stand

I quit my job. I am no longer an employee of the company I manage, but I remain, for the moment and to accompany it during a phase of financial adjustment, the CEO. During this period I have received several job offers, and I chose the probably most complex one. Partly because I like professional challenges, partly to get out of my comfort zone and take a bit of a dirt road, and partly because, evidently, I am a masochist.

The entrepreneur who made me the proposal also wanted a good part of my team with me, the one with the highest organizational and technical skills. The idea is to give a boost to his department and conform it considering an enterprise-type reorganization. Given the challenge to face, I could not refuse the dish.

My other former employees have more or less all found an alternative in a relatively short time, and this gives me some relief. Not all of them are in a healthy company, and not all of them have yet landed in a team that values them, but at least they are not stuck—both economically and professionally.

Now, please, let me go on vacation for a week.