On August 14, 2012, after thirteen years with the same company, I quit my job, with no plan about what would come next. In retrospect it was more than that; I walked away from a career, away from a six-figure salary, and toward something entirely different. Here’s why.  (Part 1 of 7).

Shock

This may sound odd, but the initial trigger that started me thinking about walking away from the job was being offered a promotion. I’d been happily employed by the same company for a dozen years at that point. My role was in syndicated research, which involved doing a few really big market research projects well: meeting deadlines, publishing accurate data, generally keeping the white-collar assembly line humming with minimum downtime.

I enjoyed working with my peers, had good managers for the most part, and happily took on challenging assignments. I also enjoyed using surveys to help understand and explain similarities and differences among various groups of people, it is interesting work, well at least it was interesting to me. Taking information a step further, crafting a message toward some desired goal, say the purchase of a widget, just fascinates me. And so it went for a dozen years.

Then, in June 2011 I was offered a promotion. This wasn’t something I’d expected or planned for, and it came with a with a decent salary bump, sweetness. I’d get to manage a small team of five people and would be responsible for producing an entire line of survey products for our company. Exciting, right? The trouble was, for some reason, I *didn’t* want the job.

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Why not?  Part of it, I think, was that I wasn’t expecting it, the opportunity caught me off guard, shock probably best describes the initial response.  The company I worked for had a policy of not allowing employees that work off-site to become managers, so I didn’t think a promotion of this sort was even possible. I’d accepted this reality in my own head, of having reached a plateau in my career, and that was ok.

Besides, like many others, my company would frequently reorganize and was always on the lookout to cut costs. This often equated to cutting staff. So I figured at some point my number would be up anyways, I assumed I’d get laid off sooner than get promoted. After being there those dozen years I would have gotten a decent severance package and had some time to ponder the next career steps.

Not able to keep my old position – at least as it had existed – and not being let go, I reluctantly accepted the promotion. Thus began the descent.

Continue on to Part 2 – Depression.