Base salary: listed. Bonus structure: listed. The low-grade dread that arrives every Sunday around 4pm like a tide you can set a watch to: somehow not in the comp package. When did the scaries start for you, and did anything actually make them go away besides leaving?
They only went away when I stopped checking email after Friday. The first weekend felt illegal. The fourth one felt like being alive.
Mine start at 3pm Sunday now, used to be 6pm. The scaries are a leading indicator and lately they're forecasting a rough Q3.
Plot twist: the scaries followed me to a 9-to-5. Turns out some of it was the job and some of it was me. Worth knowing which is which before you blow up your career.
Comp, exits, burnout, and the parts of the job that never made it into the offer letter.
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