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[quote=Anonymous]I had a meandering path after the pandemic. While the covid shuffle helped me break into a different sector and type of firm, the foray into the new has been volatile as I come in at mid-level from a completely different sector. But I'm getting my legs in the new area.

I was incredibly lucky to land a contract gig at a premium firm but in a way that tainted my resume because lower firms won't consider me and I only get called in to interview at competing premium firms. No offers have materialized except one from a wanna-be premium firm. The year I spent there was deeply depressing - the project was bad, my boss thought he was a genius, the team was mediocre, a few deaths in dh's family and my dysfunctional parent becoming even more so. I only accepted this job because it could lead to relocation for family reasons and that imploded.
As I predicted, the client did not renew the contract and several people on my team were axed. I had been looking for a job prior to this but the family events left the location issue in limbo. 
It's been a year since the layoff, it was very hard to think about working for another company. The bad wanna-be firm with the bad boss and bad project was, I think, traumatic.
I worked on a few independent small projects but now need to go back to the big firm game because I need the corporate benefits. But I realize I need to either be in a premium firm or one that is honest with itself about delivering unexciting but solid work.
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