Seeking guidance from folks who quit and moved on to other opportunities. I assume you must have done some financial due diligence on your monthly expenses, found something that meets or tops it. However what other housekeeping activities did you do, in order to not look back at T or scavenging for info from T’s internal websites.
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I saved for years so that if I was unemployed I could still survive without any salary or severance. I paid off all my debt and minimized my monthly expenses. I did the bare minimum at work to stay employed and worked on my education and skills. I causally looked for jobs without being too serious about it. Linkedin and job search sites are trash. Everyone is complaining that they can get jobs there and that's true. Fogure out what you want to do and what yoh are qualified to do, then find good companies and check their websites directly for openings. There's a ton out there and remote too depending on what you're qualified for. If you were a non-technical manger at AT&T don't expect much remote work no matter what your management level was. I see lots of my old VPs and directors on linkedin are terminally unemployable, with good reason. I did not give a notice to ATT when I left. I told nobody my plans. I left everything I was workong on for my boss to pick up. I have a new job that pays more than what i made at ATT, it's remote, the people are great and I wish I had left years ago. Left with just under 25 years at ATT. Good luck to you. You do not have to put up with ATTs BS.
"My spouse is looking for a new job. He has been looking for over a year and hasn’t even received one phone call. He’s been with T forever."
Dead weight.
I quit a while ago and now I am a manager at McDonalds. Take that Stankey.
i quit. Not terribly quietly either. AT&T is your network. Don't be shy. I asked my manager to help me create executive summaries for my projects. I was adding that directly to my resume or keeping them as stories for interviews. Directors and AVPs may not be good for much but some of them can create the most eloquent fact-based fiction.
If you want to really stick it, ask your boss when you'd be releasable to look for other positions within AT&T. Bring one or 2 just for good measure. Now he knows you're looking to advance, you can do pretty much what you want. Work on your resume, take training courses, schedule 1:1's with mentors. I took the former. Got a good job in a place doing what I love. Our company president makes a reasonable salary that is still way more than he needs. No rainbow pins or pronouns. Just good work, reasonable pay, and zero 7 digit salaries. Crazy, our president has a very nice life and still leaves money behind for the rest of us.
My spouse is looking for a new job. He has been looking for over a year and hasn’t even received one phone call. He’s been with T forever. He’s even applied to jobs making a whole lot less and stilll nothing. He’s trying to move to another city and tried to transfer through T numerous times over the years. They would not transfer him over state lines. Guess he’s stuck there until retirement, forced to move or a layoff.
Do you know what quiet quitting is? If so why are you asking advice about employment outside of the company?
I started living on 50% of my monthly pay. It was more than enough to cover my expenses - mortgage, food, utilities, ect - and still allowed for me to have some disposable money each month. I did this for a year to determine what my minimum salary would need to be at a new job. Once I was comfortable with salary needs I started applying elsewhere. I left for a job making less than I was at T but far more than the 50% I was living off of. My benefits are amazing (state job and a pension). No regrets leaving.