Pete Wright
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But you feel like you're trapped in it.
The next one is The Graceful Wind Down.
And I actually lived this one.
I feel very, very lucky.
My last job that I quit, it's like a fairy tale quit.
Okay.
I was working as a director at a company, and I...
I had this opportunity to transition and my boss knew that I was going to go freelance and needed a little time to set things up and literally advised me to slow fade.
Right.
To just say, okay, take some time, get yourself going, burn out your vacation.
Uh, and it's, it's okay.
And we'll set a date, wink, wink, like three months out, knowing full well, it'll take me about a week to get all of my duties.
Yeah.
accomplished right i don't know what was up with that uh that kind of generosity put down like it's like a man like lenny look out in the field look at all the beautiful rabbits that's really horrible i had never looked at it that way i don't know why he was old yellery you
You know what, really the way you look at it is that I was like, my position was already fairly useless in the company.
They didn't need me anymore.
But what really happened was I got a really graceful wind down.
I got to accomplish all of the goodbyes that I needed.
I got to hand over all the processes and policies and budgets that I was dealing with.
And I had time to build up a new body of work before I actually left.