Title: I work at a company that rhymes with &quot;frugal&quot;. I&#x27;ve done really well here and gotten promoted to senior SWE. My work has tons of impact. My team is a pretty healthy environment compared to the rest of the company, all things considered.<p>But now I&#x27;m struggling to find motivation to do my work. I have absolutely no interest in leading a team, but senior members in my org keep trying to groom me into a TL. I like being an IC and building what I&#x27;m told to build; I have no idea how to decide what it is we should be building and don&#x27;t want to deal with customer demands.<p>What I feel like I&#x27;d really rather do is quit and join a team working on something low stakes. Somewhere where I can put the minimum effort and still impress. I think this would be better for my mental health.<p>But it&#x27;s a hard pill to give up the FAANG compensation. Also being stuck in a NIH company has atrophied my &quot;real world&quot; tech stack knowledge, so it&#x27;s harder to market myself (especially now that the job market is saturated with laid off SWEs).<p>Any advice for jumping ship from FAANG?
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