"After college, Isaacs "completely drained" her savings on a startup she'd co-founded, and found herself grappling with her next career move. After weighing her options, she decided to follow the advice of a mentor: go to "startup rehab" - in other words, takea full-timejob. "You can always get a job at a Big Tech company,' said Isaacs, who's 28 and lives in San Francisco. About four months later, she landed a product manager role at Meta in the company's Quest for Business virtual reality division."
""There are ways you can be entrepreneurial," she said of working at Big Tech, "but it's very much not the same." Over the past year, I've interviewed more than a dozen workers who, like Isaacs, chose to quit their jobs at major employers - in some cases without another role lined up. While some eventually landed at another large company, others stepped away from the corporate world entirely - joining a smaller business, launching their own venture, pursuing a career pivot, or focusing on personal priorities like parenting."
Alyson Isaacs joined Meta in 2022 with about $200 in savings after draining her funds on a college startup. She accepted a six-figure product manager role in the Quest for Business virtual reality division to rebuild her finances while planning a return to entrepreneurship. A mentor recommended 'startup rehab'—taking a full-time job to regroup. While finding ways to be entrepreneurial inside Big Tech, Isaacs continued mapping a path back to startups and ultimately resigned from Meta last year. Other workers have also left major employers to join smaller businesses, launch ventures, pivot careers, or focus on family priorities amid a hiring slowdown.
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