šŸ€šŸ¢ I donā€™t ever want to work at a big company again

or How this country mouse is done with the rat race

Jason Theodor
2 min readAug 19, 2021
A woodcut illustration of a rat on the ground framed by grass

I donā€™t want to sit in an expensive office or at an ergonomic desk trying to look busy between very specific hours of the day.

I donā€™t want someone analyzing my timesheets every week, and comparing them to my salary and how much Iā€™ve contributed to sales.

I donā€™t want to wait in a meeting room, ten times a day, for the person who called the meeting in the first place.

I donā€™t want to share a bathroom with people who donā€™t wash their hands.

I donā€™t want the stress of going on vacation knowing that Iā€™ll have to work twice as hard the week before and the week after to make up for it.

I donā€™t want to skip research because the client ā€˜already knowsā€™ what people want.

I donā€™t want to wait in rain and snow for a late streetcar to then spend forty minutes standing and jostled by strangers, hanging onto a pole twice a day while thumbing through emails and hoping that my phone wonā€™t die.

I donā€™t want to be told that someone couldnā€™t say no to the client, so now we just have to suffer through a week of unpaid overtime.

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Jason Theodor

is an Executive Design Leader, Speaker, Writer, Consultant who is trying to comprehend his surroundings. Find more at JasonTheodor.com