I’ve made the decision to leave.
I haven’t told anyone yet.
Part of me wants to check out mentally.
Another part wants to overperform
to prove something.
Neither feels right.
How do you act
during this in-between period?
Ossan’s answer:
I treat it like a closing process,
not an escape.
I don’t work harder
to be remembered.
I don’t work less
to punish the place.
I work cleanly.
I finish what I touch.
I don’t start fires I won’t be around to put out.
I stop volunteering for futures I won’t inhabit.
The key shift is this:
I stop confusing importance with duration.
The work still matters—
just not forever.
That clarity changes tone.
You become calmer.
More precise.
Less reactive.
People often notice this
and mistake it for confidence.
It’s not.
It’s relief
from pretending this is still your long-term home.
If you can move through that period
without disappearing
and without clinging,
you leave with something intact.
Not the company’s approval.
Your own sense
that you closed a chapter
instead of tearing it out.
And that feeling
travels surprisingly well
into what comes next.