Tech

On October 18th, Meta disabled my Facebook account without warning. This is what you will see if you try to navigate to my Facebook page: None of the links in the help center

Since all non-essential surgeries were cancelled, my employer’s sales figures were heavily impacted. As a result, they had to lay-off a few dozen employees. Being a contractor, I feared that I would be let go...

I collaborated with folks with deep experience, a high level of skill, strong commitment to code quality, and motivation for continuous learning. Paradoxically, I was more stressed than ever before.

I was finding myself waking up before my alarm clock every day, feeling sharp pains in my chest, experiencing tunnel vision and muscle weakness, etc. At one point my chest pain was so intense that my supervisor actually drove me to the hospital. I had experienced my first panic attack.

I was grateful to have a job. Unfortunately, I immediately knew that I didn’t want to work there long-term and actually started applying to other jobs the second week I was there.