#Job Change

A career is an endless loop where one’s achievements are filtered through others’ judgments to assess their worth. It forges a lifelong fiction called "one resume" only to end up in a graveyard of countless interviews and evaluation forms. We cram ourselves into the corporate box labeled "talent", waiting to be shelved in the appropriate slot on the endless journey. The touted continuous advancement of one’s career is ultimately an infinite extension of unpaid overtime and elite illusions. Stirred by the hype of self-help books, we find ourselves gasping for air under yet another title.

A paid talk session that converts insecurity about the future into billable hours and sells you a sense of relief.

Career switch is the ritual of moving from one gilded cage of careers to another, often under the guise of freedom yet accompanied by equally tedious meetings and soul-draining emails. The decision to switch feels empowering, but secretly hands you a fresh set of shackles in the form of new responsibilities and anxieties. The mantra 'do what you love' is nothing more than a declaration of a different kind of labor. Job interviews become theater for the conflict between self-affirmation and self-doubt. In the end, one merely trades one routine for another, chasing the mirage of fulfillment.