About getting fired and standing back up
I was 28 when I started to work at a multinational company. I was full of dreams and sky-high expectations about what it will be like. I knew it will be very demanding and that I will have to put a lot of hours into it but I was sure I could get higher because I believed in who I was and it fit perfectly with the vision of the company. On paper… In reality, things were of course different. Even though some organisations have beautiful and valuable missions, these don’t always come to life in the actual teams of the organisation. In this case, there was a sharp difference between how the management of the team has led their people and what I read online about the values of the company. There was an extremely high level of competition between people in management, when something went wrong, employees were not protected but the entire weight of all the piled-up mistakes was put on their shoulders. Even after one week, I felt that this was not my place, but I gave it a chance. There w...