After 25 years at Adobe, engineer laid off; now he is a driver

Pic courtesy: LinkedIn/ James Strawn After building a robust career in tech, including 25 years at Adobe, a software engineer found himself facing a difficult job search after being laid off. He struggled to find a job for a year, and then left the industry and now works as a bus driver. His new job pays less, but he feels content and has ‘caring’ co-workers.This isn’t a story about burnout or disillusionment with technology itself. It's about what happens when loyalty meets efficiency, when an entire industry decides institutional knowledge is disposable and then makes it nearly impossible for experienced people to land elsewhere.From Silicon Valley to school busRepresentative imageJames Strawn spent over 25 years at Adobe as a senior software quality engineer. However, he was laid off last year, after more than two decades of institutional knowledge and dedication. While most of us assume that a senior engineer would easily find a job after that, for Strawn, that wasn’t the story. Automated rejections, ghosting recruiters and a lack of responses made him rethink his whole career. In a post shared on LinkedIn, Strawn revealed that he felt ‘demoralised’ and ‘discriminated against’....