Tag: Escaping corporate life

Corporate Stockholm Syndrome

Post author By Sarah
Post date 2025-07-02
Categories In Community, Early retirement, Escaping corporate life, Household Finance
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Reflections In this final segment of my career, I’ve worked for “Mega Corp”, Fortune 100 behemoths. Prior to this stage, I worked for much smaller companies, mostly software firms with fewer than 1,000 employees. I had a very scary realization shortly after onboarding at Mega Corp 1 (which has been confirmed at Mega Corp 2): […]

Early Retirement: The Ultimate Career Flex

Post author By Sarah
Post date 2025-05-19
Categories In Early retirement, ESCAPE, Escaping corporate life
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Reflection My LinkedIn feed can be a bit depressing these days. As if the layoff announcements aren’t enough, I deal with another sad phenomenon: Folks my age “career flexing” about the same stuff they’ve been posting about since their 30s and 40s. Careers have seasons. That I have learned. The same things that fueled […]