Okay so buckle in because this one has plot twists, literally, the company kept plotting different twists into its own business model like a soap opera writer who forgot the last three episodes. I joined this edtech sta…
I ran operations at a logistics company for twenty-eight years, starting as a picker on the floor and working my way up to operations manager. By the end I had four warehouses under me, forty-some staff, and a back that …
Tôi làm thợ in offset rồi lên quản lý xưởng in gần bốn mươi năm, tính từ hồi còn học việc, tay lấm lem mực đen, tới lúc về hưu thì tay vẫn còn lấm lem, chỉ có điều giờ già rồi lấm lem mà rửa lâu sạch hơn hồi trẻ. Cái ng…
Tôi làm product cho một startup fintech rất nhỏ, đội ngũ chưa tới mười lăm người, làm ứng dụng hỗ trợ quản lý chi tiêu cá nhân kết hợp gợi ý tiết kiệm cho người trẻ. Câu chuyện tôi muốn kể không hẳn là chuyện nghỉ việc t…
Thirty-two years as a site supervisor for residential and commercial interior fit-outs, and I can tell you almost to the week when the trade started changing under me, because it lined up almost exactly with when the com…
Thirty years teaching English at a language school, the last fourteen as head teacher, and I'll tell you the ending first since it's a happier one than most stories like this: I retired on my own schedule, in my own way,…
I was an operations lead at a delivery startup, the kind that promises groceries and packages within the hour and burns a lot of investor money making that promise real. I ran a fulfillment warehouse on the edge of the c…
This one's complicated so let me just tell it in order instead of trying to summarize the vibe upfront. I joined a small indie studio, six people total when I started, as a junior programmer, mostly gameplay scripting a…