You are the phoenix.
Life After Tech
Redefine Yourself and Discover New Work Opportunities
You are the phoenix. It’s never too early to plan what you’ll do when you’re done with tech… or tech is done with you. You might not be ready to change careers, but you’re curious about adding non-tech work or growing your own business.
After decades of building a tech career, author Debbie Levitt is one of many people with questions, anxieties, and doubts. As a mentor and coach, the employed and unemployed often ask her, “What happened to tech jobs?” and “What will I do next?”
Life After Tech is your personal and proactive journey. Eighteen introspective exercises—plus templates and examples—make Life After Tech a guide and a workbook. Use the “Phoenix Flight Plan” to get grounded, plan, rise, and soar.
Debbie addresses common career change emotions and fears through sensitivity, critical thinking, humor, and vulnerability. She provides fresh advice and perspectives while avoiding the toxic positivity that plagues job struggles.
It’s better to plan (and act) now.
You can read the book later when you are laid off, more frustrated, or feeling desperate about work. But why wait until you’re in that position?
Be ready with a plan, even if you don’t act on it yet. Or start finding or creating work opportunities outside of tech.
Many of us hope to keep working in tech, but what if we can’t due to layoffs, lack of jobs, Return to Office, lower salaries, and other factors?
- New data shows US job growth has been far weaker than initially reported, CNN, 21 Aug 2024
- Articles claim there is an IT skills shortage, mostly in cybersecurity and blockchain, but is that true? Are there more jobs than people?
- If we were to try to upskill now into these areas, do these jobs welcome newbies? Or do they only want years of a proven track record?
- Which jobs will AI partially or wholly take? Design? Product Management? Project Management? Front-end Development? Are any of these safe?
It’s scary out there. We didn’t see this coming, and it’s hard to predict what’s next.
All Are Welcome
Life After Tech is for everybody considering a career or work change:
- Struggling to find a tech job
- Can’t transition into tech
- Job reduced or replaced by “tech”
- Those expecting to work many more years in tech
- Non-tech workers
You might not be leaving tech work right now. You might have no trouble finding and staying in tech-related jobs. Perhaps you’re considering non-tech side work or something entrepreneurial.
You don’t have to abandon tech or stop looking for work to be part of our community, read the book, or do the book exercises.
You’re Not Alone
Working in technology has become stressful and difficult, if not impossible. Jobs are increasingly hard to find. Layoffs are so common that most of us have lived through at least one, or fear the next one. Many salaries are lower than they used to be. Workplaces feel increasingly toxic, and appear to have abandoned quality, values, and ethics. Experts predict that AI will reduce or eliminate tens of millions of jobs in the coming years.
Beyond being a book and workbook, Life After Tech is about helping each other.
- Join our free Discord community.
- Debbie, the author, offers career, work, and other coaching. The first session is free.
- Check the events calendar for live streams, workshops, and other usually-free events.