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Working in a large corporation is a place where you get paid for (lemmy.ml)
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[–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 24 points 17 hours ago

I thought I'd love a job like this, and it was fine, for a while.

But you can feel yourself stagnating and you know that when they eventually make you redundant you'd struggle to get another job because you spent too long coasting.

I left it for a job at a startup, much more engaging but also much more work