I went into corporate because I thought a salary meant security. That was the logic. Deliver results, keep your head down, and the stability takes care of itself.
Six positions later, three redundancies and three contracts that ended without warning, I finally stopped arguing with the pattern. The structure I had chosen specifically for its predictability turned out to be the least stable option I could have picked. Not because the work was bad. The work was genuinely good. The architecture of it never actually fit how I operate, and no amount of effort was going to change that.
That last redundancy, six weeks early, was the moment the logic finally cracked. I stopped trying to make a structure work that was never going to suit me, and started building one that would.
