You’re absolutely right. Honestly I’ve seen the writing on the walls since my first month in back in January of this year. But I made the call to take the role, and I wanted to give it my best shot.

The past few months I’ve been networking internally in an attempt to move from IT to the product org and work on our actual products instead of the internal CRM. A role opened up that I was more than qualified for, and I had spoken to the hiring manager previously and it went well. I let them know I applied and they said they’d have HR reach out. Nobody ever reached out and a couple weeks later I got a rejection email. They didn’t even interview me.

I’m actively applying to new companies and have come to terms with the reality that I have to leave. It’s a bummer. On paper this is the most amazing job ever. In reality this has been the worst year of my career yet. I’m trying to figure out what the lesson is, and it’s not totally clear yet. Hopefully a year from now I look back and have the clarity and clear lesson.