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I lost my job twice in 8 months: First time I was brought into a joint venture that was going into the ground as the 2 investors wanted to split. Board meeting
by szaroubi 3y ago
I lost my job twice in 8 months:
First time I was brought into a joint venture that was going into the ground as the 2 investors wanted to split. Board meeting 2 weeks into my job, and the decision was taken. They should have never hired my position.
Second time was a clear cultural non-fit, I have very consensus oriented and the founder needed everything for yesterday.
I took the 2 packages I had and went into consulting, I love helping people solve their problems, found a new love for tech, that I had lost in a 15 years of management I had done. I picked up new skills from the teams I was working with.
Since then, I have joined partners, developed an IoT consulting business (with a healthy mix of blue-chip clients and startups) and we are about to launch a product in the Agtech space.
The layoffs were a shock initially, and I had a small burnout after the 2nd, but I love people, so I kept going to network with people I had enjoyed working with and I got a first contract 3 days a week.
In short:
- got fired,
- burned out,
- talked to my friends/network,
- got a small consulting job with an ex-coleague,
- learned to love tech again,
- now my business is growing because I surround myself with good people that I trust.
edit: formatting
- donnie12345 3y agoWhat type of business? What about marketing?