I’ve got a little over 20 years of leadership experience from small teams in a warehouse to running entire distribution centers. Side stepped recently into IT leadership, taking over L2 support for an entire country network of distribution centers. Plenty of project management, LEAN, and P&L experience. IT side, fairly technically skilled with network infrastructure, sysadmin, all that fun stuff.
The layoff bells are ringing and now I’m pondering what to do next. If I do get let go, I’ll have a year of pay in a lump sum so I will have some time and funds to get me through it. Wife works and has a solid job that can carry our base expenses.
What are some thoughts? I’m burned out on leadership and would love to do my own thing or have a small team of less than a dozen. Got a couple kids in school so would be nice for flexible schedules.
I’ve got no degree, just kinda worked my way up through the years and always been comfortably employed. Never been without a job or taken time off longer than 3 week stretches for over 25 years.
Now what?