"I made $450,000 a year (about Rs 3.5 crore), got free food daily, and had unlimited paid time off. It was the Big Tech dream."
Digital Desk: Michael Lin, who used to work as an engineer in theNetflix,
quit his job after he got bored, and the job became monotonous for him.
He used to earn Rs 3.5 crore a year.
color:#0E101A">Michael Lin joined Netflix as a Senior Software Engineer in 2017
after leaving his job at Amazon. "At the time, I thought I would stay with
Netflix forever," he wrote on LinkedIn. "I made $450,000 a year (about Rs 3.5 crore), got free food
daily, and had unlimited paid time off. It was the Big Tech dream." That's why, when Lin quit in May 2021, and everyone thought he
was crazy. Lin stated that his parents were the first to object. For them, him
quitting the job was like throwing away their hard work of immigrating
to the US. My mentor was the second to object, he added. Lin said that he learned
a lot on the job during his initial years but after Covid struck, almost
everything that Lin liked about the job - the socializing, the coworkers,
the perks - came to an end. "The only thing left was
the work itself, and I didn't enjoy it anymore," he said. Lin revealed that working
at Netflix was like getting paid to work on case studies one learns about in
MBA programs. They made the memos for every product decision available for all
employees to read, and I learned so much every day”. Lin was afraid that the
move would affect his career and social life, but the opposite happened.
"I've met more people through starting my own business - other entrepreneurs,
writers, and creators," he stated. He added that he felt a deep calm and a sense of relief inside
+and believed everything would eventually work out. "It's been eight
months since I quit my job at Netflix, and I've decided to commit fully to
working for myself," Lin said. "Although I'm just starting and don't
have any dependable streams of income yet, I am going to trust the process that
if I do work that energizes me, good things will happen", Lin believes.
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