https://owntheleap.com/tags/career-transition/Recent content in Career Transition on Own The LeapHugoen-usSun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://owntheleap.com/posts/what-im-actually-asking-the-attorney/Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://owntheleap.com/posts/what-im-actually-asking-the-attorney/<p>I printed the employment agreement this morning. The copy I found in the guest room closet last week, eleven pages, originally printed on an HP inkjet I got rid of in 2021. It&rsquo;s on my computer. I highlighted the clause on the PDF two weeks ago. I printed it again anyway.</p> <p>Something about a legal document in your hand on a Sunday morning that is different from the same document on a screen. The screen version I&rsquo;ve been reading for two weeks. The paper version I made coffee first.</p>https://owntheleap.com/posts/the-real-deadline/Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://owntheleap.com/posts/the-real-deadline/<p>The scheduling email came at 8:47 this morning. I was on my second cup of coffee and my third work email of the day when I saw it, and I did the thing where I close the laptop and then open it again because I wasn&rsquo;t sure I&rsquo;d read it right.</p> <p>The consultation is Tuesday at 1pm. Video call, forty-five minutes, bring your employment agreement.</p> <p>I have known this was coming. I submitted the intake form six days ago. I knew a date would arrive and I would put it in my calendar. And yet when it came, I sat there with my coffee going cold and felt something I am still trying to name correctly. Not relief, exactly. More like: oh. So it&rsquo;s real.</p>