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A little over two years ago, I resigned from a job I had held for more than ten years. No, it wasn't a sudden decision. It was a decade in the making. The Warning I Ignored Three months into that job, I knew I didn't want to be there. Truthfully, I knew even before I started. From the very day, I was called in to collect the letter confirming my interview date. Something about that place felt off. I couldn't name it. I couldn't point to it. But I felt it. At the time, I was a single mother to two boys, and I needed a job to provide for them. There was no way I was turning down that opportunity over a feeling I couldn't explain. I took the job. I stayed. I built a career there. And for years, I carried a quiet unease I didn't have the language for. Preparing to Leave Long Before I Left It was in 2018 that the need to exit became undeniable. I had tried everything to fix my working conditions, but by then I knew this wasn't going to get bett...