So it's finally my turn to join the 'your role is at risk of redundancy club'. As I imagine it happens to most, it started with that suspicious meeting invite with the keywords 'urgent' and 'mandatory' with only myself, the COO and CPO as the attendees. And to the surprise of nobody, 2 hours later I was sat on a call letting me know that my role was being 'eliminated'.

Now, 'eliminated' is an interesting word to use I thought. Normally don't you just say 'redundant' or similar? But whatever, I'm guessing this might be the standard language that they use in the US for this sort of thing.

Anyhow, what I really wanted to write about here was how I was feeling in the moment. In all honesty, I actually feel quite excited and energised about taking some time to myself and thinking really hard about what it is I want to do next.

As the organisation has grown and starts morphing into more of an enterprise business I've been seeing some early signals that things might not be going in the direction that I thought we would, so actually I'm viewing this as a good point to 'step off the ship' and take some time to really think hard about what I want to do next, what mark I want to leave on the world and what direction I need to start moving in to progress towards my next goal.

I'll write a separate post-mortem on my time in the role, but reflecting back on the past 2 years i'll admit it's been a pretty crazy, intense and fun ride. I joined early on when they were just 2 small engineering squads and the product MVP had just launched and as I move on there are now 8 squads split into 4 separate tribes. There's going to be plenty to reflect on, and although there are some alternative roles open within the company that they are keen for me to move into I feel theat this is the perfect time to 'step off the ship' and seek out a new adventure.