There is Life After Tech

Debbie Levitt
Life After Tech
Published in
3 min readSep 23, 2024

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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.

After decades of building a tech career, I’m one of many people with questions, anxieties, and doubts. As a mentor and coach, the employed and unemployed often ask me, “What happened to tech jobs?” and “What will I do next?

My new book is now available!

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.

I address common career change emotions and fears through sensitivity, critical thinking, humor, and vulnerability. I provide fresh advice and perspectives while avoiding the toxic positivity that plagues job struggles. There is no way I’m going to tell you your joblessness is your fault, you caused it, or if you would only just tweak your resume again……. I’m also not telling you cheer up, the next job is just around the corner, and think positive.

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 but want to plan ahead or add non-tech work to their lives
  • Non-tech workers

Book details:

  • Under 40,000 words. Print version uses Atkinson Hyperlegible font from the Braille Institute.
  • 5.5" x 8.5" or 14 cm x 21.6 cm
  • Kindle
  • PDF and EPUB together as a ZIP
  • Personally signed copies available!
  • Audible is still processing the audiobook files, so it should be there soon if not already. Narrated, edited, and produced by me.
  • All the link are at https://lat.link/book

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.

book cover, phoenix rising from tech fire toward the sun
My new book published 23 Sept! Audiobook publishing soon after.

We need to talk about this.

This topic is so stigmatized that Life After Tech is one of the first books–and possibly the first book–specifically about leaving technology jobs and careers.

The Life After Tech Discord community, membership website, and other resources make Life After Tech more than a book. New YouTube channel too! New Life After Tech Medium publication.

https://LifeAfterTech.info

LAT is a support system that welcomes everybody no matter where they are on the ever-changing working in tech/not working in tech spectrum. You can also find the PDF, EPUB, and audiobook on our website.

AI statement: The only AI used to make this book is Grammarly’s spelling and grammar correction. There are brief, credited quotes from Claude.ai and Google’s “Career Dreamer” in Chapter 9. All other text was planned, written, edited, formatted, and checked by humans.

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Debbie Levitt
Life After Tech

“The Mary Poppins of CX & UX.” Strategist, Researcher, Architect, Speaker, Trainer. Algorithms suck. Join my Patreon.com/cxcc or Patreon.com/LifeAfterTech