After several years here, I'm leaving my secure well paid job at a large company for a job at a non profit organization I've been a financial supporter of for many years. It seems like a really great match of my personal values and my professional skills in software architecture.
This change started because of reasons to leave my current role, which is how I learned of the new job. It's now because I am compelled to take the new role as it looks like an ideal match. That doesn't change that there's real pain points at the company I'm leaving...
I really like the company that I'm leaving and I've played a really important role here. I love the people and what I've done and the team I've helped build.
I gave several weeks' notice because I wanted to give them time to act. They haven't. They haven't contracted a back fill. They haven't worked out a transition plan. They've posted two or three positions to replace my role, but those will likely take months to fill.
I'm a lead and I'm concerned their inaction will cause my whole team to leave.
I'm beginning to think they actually literally don't understand the importance of their IT people. It's not a tech company, but a manufacturing company and this could mean real trouble for them really soon.
I've done and am doing everything possible to make this as smooth as possible. I know their inaction is not my responsibility, but it's concerning because I do care about my team and all of these people across the company I've worked with and taken care of in my way for nearly a decade.
I will be taking a small paycut, which I haven't chosen to do before. But I'm apparently good at what I do and I'm eager to have every hour of my work contribute directly to saving lives and the other good that this organization does.