The Month After Leaving Big Tech - Kun Chen
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What it feels like to quit your job and go solo
Hi, I'm Kun. I just quit my big tech career as an L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian a month ago, to be a solo builder. Throughout my career, I’ve come to know that many ambitious people have all contemplated, or are still contemplating a similar decision - Continue working for a company, or hop onto an adventure of my own? So when I left the job, I told myself I will share my journey, in the most transparent and honest way possible, to provide one concrete data point for what a solo builder’s journey may look like. Now that I’m one month into this - what did I do, what did I…
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