{"id":1157,"date":"2007-04-10T10:31:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T15:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/10\/kareem-a-big-companys-nightmare\/"},"modified":"2007-04-10T10:31:36","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T15:31:36","slug":"kareem-a-big-companys-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/10\/kareem-a-big-companys-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Kareem \u2014 a big company’s nightmare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surfing through my feed reader this morning, I came across a post from Kareem Mayan about why he left a job at Fox Interactive Media (the News Corp. unit that controls MySpace). The bottom line — at least from my reading of his post<\/a> — is that while he got to do some interesting things at the company, he just didn’t feel challenged or motivated. <\/p>\n

\"kareem.jpg\"Kareem, who I met at last year’s mesh conference<\/a> and is originally from Toronto, is a smart young guy who I’m sure lots of companies would jump at hiring. But he left to run a small startup<\/a> that is working on something in the field of education. Why? Here’s what he says:<\/p>\n

“After too many days of being miserable, I realized it was because I wasn’t happy with my job. I was earning a lot of money, had just gotten a promotion, lived in a beautiful apartment near the beach with my rad girlfriend, but none of it was floating my boat.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you’re a big company like FIM or News Corp., you need people like Kareem — but you are destined to lose them because doing something challenging and meaningful means more than having a big job with a fancy title and a nice raise or a corner office. <\/p>\n

Just one thing, Kareem: Can I have your beautiful apartment near the beach? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Surfing through my feed reader this morning, I came across a post from Kareem Mayan about why he left a job at Fox Interactive Media (the News Corp. unit that controls MySpace). The bottom line — at least from my reading of his post — is that while he got to do some interesting things … <\/p>\n

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