Got the email Tuesday. Ten years at Microsoft. "Your position has been eliminated, effective July 18th." I've probably read it forty times and the words still don't quite land.
I built a team there. I helped ship three products. I was the person who trained people who trained other people. Tuesday I was that. Wednesday I'm a severance package and an updated LinkedIn headline.
The hardest part isn't the job search ahead. It's that I genuinely don't know who I am on the other side of this yet.
Anonymous Fox,