{"id":544,"date":"2022-12-28T18:06:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T18:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culture.andarian.net\/parallel\/?p=544"},"modified":"2025-03-31T15:38:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T15:38:01","slug":"the-great-resignation-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culture.andarian.net\/parallel\/culture\/the-great-resignation-part-i\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Resignation, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/accordingtohoyt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sarah A. Hoyt<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/accordingtohoyt.com\/2022\/12\/27\/so-its-off-to-work-riding-the-catastrophic-change-wave-part-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">latest blog post<\/a> on the state of today&#8217;s job market. Her upcoming installments also look promising. I had some thoughts on it and wanted to share them here as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>This is spot on, Sarah. Thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a number of contributing factors to this, some of which you addressed. Another that you hinted at, and which I think is a larger factor than people realize, is how cancel culture (often backed by government action) <a><\/a>has been forcing people to pivot, in self-defense, away from dependence on a job market they could no longer trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This happened to me a year ago, when a certain government mandate forced me out of a 25+ year tech job and into early retirement. &#8220;Voluntary&#8221; adherence to that mandate is pervasive in my industry, so looking for another job (especially at my age) wasn&#8217;t much of an option. That&#8217;s when I went &#8220;all in&#8221; on my long-standing aspirations to pursue a career as an indie author.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The broader point isn&#8217;t just that I was &#8220;cast out&#8221; from a profession I&#8217;d been in for decades, for lack of political compliance. It&#8217;s that I \ud835\ude68\ud835\ude69\ud835\ude5e\ud835\ude61\ud835\ude61 would have resisted going back into the current job market, even if that had been a realistic option. As long as I had the resources to support myself, I was adamant about using them to grow a future career in which my ability to make a living would no longer be at the mercy of these bad actors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m alone in that, and that a lot of people are probably working through a similar calculus. To pivot or adjust to a series of life choices that represent not surrendering to coercion, but protecting themselves from it by creating and pursuing alternatives. This is often called a &#8220;Parallel Society&#8221; response to growing totalitarianism, and it&#8217;s a natural one. And it&#8217;s one that I think a lot of time, savings and capital are now being diverted to, to the detriment of a traditional job market that&#8217;s largely been weaponized against us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recommend Sarah A. Hoyt&#8216;s latest blog post on the state of today&#8217;s job market. Her upcoming installments also look promising. I had some thoughts on it and wanted to share them here as well. This is spot on, Sarah. Thank you. 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