"In April, I went through my third tech layoff in two years, and it was the straw that broke the camel's back: I was leaving tech behind. I just got married this summer, and it made me think about what I want my life to look like in five or 10 years. I had thought about leaving tech to go into education before, but it was hard to justify leaving when I was making up to $110,00 a year with just a bachelor's degree."
"After this last layoff, I wanted something more stable. I enjoyed the work I was doing, but I didn't wake up every day dying to be in tech sales. I'm now pivoting my career to teaching. I know I'm walking into making less money for a while, but in 10 years, I'll be making the same, if not more, and teaching is not going away; it's always going to be a needed career."
"My path into tech sales was typical. I started in sales development because my parents were both in business, and this seemed like a way to get my feet wet in the corporate world. I climbed the ranks until, most recently, I was a customer success manager. I enjoyed what I did because every day was different and things were always changing in tech. But it wasn't enough to compete with the ebbs and flows of the marketplace."
Sarah Henschel experienced three tech layoffs in two years; the third in April prompted her decision to leave the industry. She recently married and reassessed her five- to ten-year goals, weighing long-term stability over a lucrative tech salary. She plans to pivot into teaching despite expecting lower earnings initially, believing teaching will offer enduring demand and future income parity. Her tech career began in sales development, influenced by her parents' business backgrounds, and progressed to a customer success manager role. She appreciated variety in tech work but found the market's ebbs and flows unsustainable, and a prior layoff had already led her to consider education.
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