Per My Last Email – Details, episodes & analysis

This week, we hear from letter-writers who are up for promotions at their workplaces—but are having some mixed feelings about accepting them. One is less than thrilled at the increased scope of operation tasks, but is scared to reject a sure thing and look for other opportunities.  Another has been promoted four times in the last eight years and wants a chance to settle in and grow their team. Join Jen and Sara as they help these letter-writers make sense of where and how they want to grow right now—with or without a title change.

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• Sign up for 1:1 coaching with Sara and Jen!

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It’s a Very Special Episode of Per My Last Email! This week, Sara and Jen share updates from four previous letter writers. One was upset by their company’s unfair hiring practices. Another felt they had outgrown their current role, but was scared of moving on. Yet another was contemplating burning it all down and opening a juice bar far, far away. And our last writer was processing being ghosted after a layoff.

So, what’s changed for these letter writers? Did they quit their jobs, get the closure they wanted, or otherwise change their work lives? And most importantly: how have they changed in the process? Join Sara and Jen as they find out!

Links:

• Register now for Power Shift! Sessions start September 11th
• Read Work Won’t Love You Back

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Career transitions are always hard, but today’s letter writers are having an especially tough time deciding what their next move should be. One’s finding that their field of choice isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Another’s struggling to know how to position a harmful past experience in a way that doesn’t count them out of future opportunities. Both are feeling really stuck—and looking for help from Sara and Jen to decide what’s next for them, and how to get there. 

Links:

• Sign up for Power Shift (register by 12/31 to save $150)

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“Prioritize better,” “lead more,” “be more assertive.” In today’s episode, Sara and Jen take on questions from listeners who are deep in the midst of corporate gaslighting and help them understand their feelings, assess their options, and find a way forward—without just working harder.

Links:

• Read Sara’s article: Hey Designers, They’re Gaslighting You
• Check out “Gaslighter” by The Chicks
• Is Therapy-Speak Making Us Selfish?
• The Moral Injury Project at Syracuse University  
• Jen’s Luddite book rec: Blood in the Machine
• Join us for Reclaim Your Power

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“Transparency” sounds like a good thing…but is it always? When should you share personal info with your boss? What if you know a layoff is coming? This week, Jen and Sara look at tough situations about disclosing information—and help two listeners with very different scenarios decide whether spilling the tea is the right thing to do, or if it’ll cause more harm than good. 

Links:

• Explore the depths of WaterTok
• Episode 8: Why you gotta be so rude?
• The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (USA)
• The Equality Act of 2010 (England, Scotland, Wales)

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What do you do when your burnout doesn’t just feel like exhaustion, but more like disillusionment—and maybe even cynicism? In today’s episode, Sara and Jen tackle questions from listeners who are struggling to keep afloat amid job search burnout, career malaise, and the kinds of communication breakdowns that leave us questioning, well, everything. 

Links:

• Layoffs.fyi is tracking aggregate numbers of tech industry layoffs.
• According to Techcrunch, we’re probably past the worst of it.
• You don’t have to love networking, but you probably need to make peace with it. Jennifer Kim’s guide can help.

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Managers being paid less than their ICs, punitive raise structures, cryptic pay bands…this week’s submitters are really going through it. But how do you start the compensation conversation when information is hard to come by? And what do you do when you’re told that there’s no way you’ll get a raise—just accept being paid less than your peers forever? This week, Sara and Jen tackle questions of pay inequity, when it’s time to fight, and when it might be time to move on.   

Links:

• Curious what other people in the field are making? Take a look at the Global UX Compensation Database!
• For Equal Pay Day, Survey Monkey polled users on their beliefs about pay equity. It found that “men and younger Americans are the most likely to incorrectly believe that genders are paid equally for similar jobs.”
• Join Rachel de Jong for Own Your Impact with StrengthsFinder

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For many of us, our work identity and sense of self have become tied in a big knot. When your job has become your identity, it's easy to get stuck. How do you know when it’s time to stay and fight for change, or move onto something new? This week, Sara and Jen work through dilemmas from folks looking for a way forward—without losing themselves in the process.

Links:

• If Books Could Kill: Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
• Join The Courageous Leadership Program

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It shouldn’t be this hard to find a job that pays you well, fulfills you, and keeps your values intact. But when disillusionment and burnout strike, it can be hard to deal with workplace tradeoffs. Is the answer simply to strike out on your own?

Navigating uncertainty, building your identity outside of work, and juggling passion projects: this week, Sara and Jen tackle dilemmas from folks looking for ways to align work with their values—without going broke.  

Links:

• Schedule a strategy session with Sara or Jen 

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Ever dealt with someone demanding that you find them a new job? Or have a friend and colleague go cold and ghost you the moment you get laid off? What about getting berated and then iced out by the head of your org? 

Other people’s unkind, over-the-top, and just plain rude behavior can make you question everything—even yourself. So how do you find a path forward? That’s what Sara and Jen tackle in this week’s episode. 

Links:

• Post-pandemic incivility on the rise
• Meet your shadow self
• Nonviolent communication and the “Four Ds of Disconnection”

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