Why I Quit Google’s WebAssembly Team, and How It Made Me Sick
I recently left a stressful job after developing shingles and then celiac disease. My life is much worse now, I went into that job healthy and strong and now I&#x27;m sick all the time. Perhaps celaic disease was always in the genetic cards for me, or maybe the stress triggered it? The worst part is the job wasn&#x27;t especially bad, it was a reasonable job, and I can expect my next job to have similar stress I think. What am I going to do?<p>I&#x27;m always amazed at the change in perspective after being in a job for a while. While unemployed, I feel competent, I make progress on hard problems nobody else in the world is working on, and I feel good. While employed, stupid crap stresses me constantly, I can&#x27;t leave the stress at work, I bring it home, I obsess about social hierarchies that can vanish in an instant. Everytime I&#x27;ve left a job I&#x27;m amazed that after just a couple days I can barely remember what I was working on before and what stressed me, like my brain knows all of that no longer matters and let&#x27;s it go in an instant.<p>How can I keep a healthy outside perspective while remaining employed? How do I avoid becoming mentally trapped in the workplace mindset? I&#x27;ve been giving this a lot of thought, but no answers so far.