How I got fired from my webdev job
This is a really hard post for me to write but I know that it will help a lot of people in this situation and also help others in overcoming your fears and doubts.
Let’s begin this story explaining in was I was working. I was a Semi Sr. Front End Developer in a company here in Buenos Aires, Argentina for about one month, there was the first time I actually worked with MobX as a state manager and not using Apollo and GraphQL, but you have to understand that here in Buenos Aires GraphQL is nothing more than something far far away and that may never work for those projects, because I’m self-taught I know the old tech and the new, but rather spend my time learning the new things in this changing world of Web Development.
My first week was simple, learning the project, how it was structured, the way the work with React and MobX, etc., but that’s what they asked me to do. The second week I started to do work, some components, some bug fixing, boring stuff if I’m honest, but nothing bad. The third week came and everything started going down… They start saying I was lazy because I didn’t finish 3 components, solve 4 bugs and change some other things in a day, really hard components, bugs they didn’t know how to solve, and you can imagine how this continues, but at the end, I solved those issues and create those components, 3 hours later, but whatever. The next week I started to feel bad, uncomfortable and with a lot of pressure on my shoulders because we need to finish the project in 2 more weeks and we still had a lot of work to do.
One day, the CTO call me to his office because of how I was working and how I wasn’t “fast enough” and that I need to start working after hours to compensate my lack of work, just for some context I already was working after hours and was working my as# of, but I said “ok, I will work harder”.
The next week the CEO call me to his office to fired me, I wasn’t working hard enough and it’s better for us to end the working relationship.
I was shocked, I worked my life for the project to get fired for not working enough? Ok, the life I guess. But when I came home, I told my girlfriend and she said something unbelievable, she said that I was looking so depressed and stressful this hole month and I had a face of relief, and that with all this time to spare I can now dedicate more time to things that make me happy, like writing for medium, working on my freelance and side projects, and most of all, rest. For 2 weeks I only slept 3 hours a day, working on my freelance projects and my day job.
Things like this will happen, maybe more than once, but I now realize that I should know better my value, that If I worked so hard in that work, I should work like that for something that actually makes me 100% happy, something that I really like. If this ever happens to you, don’t be sad, you gave your 100% and if they don’t value that, you need to get out, fast, and do something that really makes you happy!