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The Promotion That Taught Me I Wasn't Ready. I got promoted to Director of Engineering on a Tuesday. By Friday, three of my best engineers had resigned.
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I stared at my bank account balance: 7.32. That was it. That was everything I had left after making my final student loan payment.
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I was 43 years old, sitting in my corner office, staring at a spreadsheet that represented my entire career. Twenty years of climbing. Two decades of.
