Will you ever quit a job because you are bored? Some people might... but perhaps not when the salary is USD 450,000 (or, Rs 3.5 crore) per annum. However, Michael Lin did not think the same before quitting his highly paid job.
Lin, a senior software engineer at Netflix US with a salary of USD 450k resigned from his job in 2021 because was bored of it.
While joining Netflix in 2017, after his job at Amazon, Lin thought that he would never leave the new organisation that he was joining.
But he called it quits for not enjoying the work.
If this reads unbelievable to you, wait. There is more.
Along with this salary, Lin received several perks like free food, unlimited paid time off. As mentioned by him, it was the Big Tech dream.
But soon after joining the organisation, Covid struck. All the good things about the job were not useful anymore. The socialising, free food; everything came to an end.
That’s when Lin lost interest in his job.
His family and mentor were obviously not happy with the decision. 'My parents were the first to object. For them, my quitting was throwing away their hard work of immigrating to the US. My mentor was the second to object. He said I shouldn't quit without another job lined up because I'd miss out on leveraging my high salary when negotiating my pay at the next job,' he said in a LinkedIn post, which he later deleted.
In a post 8 months after quitting the job, Lin said that he wants to work on himself. After Netflix, Lin has now started his own consultancy business.
'Although I'm just starting and don't have any dependable streams of income yet, I'm going to trust the process that if I do work that energises me, good things will happen,' he added.
Would you do the same if your job was boring?