Life After Tech

“I was fortunate to cross paths with Life After Tech just days after being laid off, and it couldn’t have come at a better time. The first few chapters were incredibly cathartic and validating. This book didn’t just inspire introspection—it gave me the language and structure to process the many unknowns and worries swirling in my head. It helped me see that the Core Personal Qualities I valued in myself and applied in my tech career are just as relevant in other parts of my life. 

Life After Tech has been a guiding light, making me feel hopeful and excited about the potential new paths I can take—whether I stick with tech or not.”

“Life After Tech was an honest exploration of my relationship with technology. Debbie Levitt avoids the gaslighting, overly introspective tropes, and toxic positivity commonly found in self-help books. Instead, I found myself taking a curiosity-driven journey with a guide who clearly respects each reader’s intelligence and past experiences. This book is a valuable resource for anyone seeking harmony after burnout in the digital age, with career insights that feel both attainable and genuine.”

“Sharing personal examples, hard-gained wisdom, and a psychologically sound approach to career transition, this book is a life raft for anyone drowning in the stormy sea of a challenging tech career. Whether you’re struggling as a developer, designer, researcher, or project manager, this is a must-read.

Debbie’s easy-to-read prose validates your frustration, joins you in your disillusionment, and gives you a clear, achievable plan to take back control of your career, your autonomy, and your soul. It was a privilege for me to serve as a content editor for this book, and I know it will be a beacon of hope for anyone seeking life after tech. Do yourself a favor and read it. Today.”

A Thoughtful Guide to Redefining Work and Self

“In this book, Debbie encourages the readers to rethink what work truly means, what they want from it, and how they can tailor their careers to better fit their authentic selves.

Debbie effectively deconstructs the overly idealized pop culture concept that would have our identities be inseparable from our professions. Instead, she advocates for a more balanced approach, where work complements rather than defines us.

While the book is quick to read and easy to digest, I recommend spending quality time with the exercises Debbie includes. These exercises provide deeper insights and greater value, making the book not just a read, but a tool for meaningful self-reflection.”

“A great read that helps to bring order into very chaotic and scary thoughts. Working in tech is all many of us ever knew, and everything we might feel capable of doing. Now more than ever, thinking about possible alternatives is not just a sensible choice – for many of us, it is actually an urgent need.

This is not a self-help guide by some self-proclaimed guru who promises you eternal happiness and outrageous success; it’s a grounded, step-by-step framework to make a solid plan for your future. It’s coming from real experience, narrated with great openness and vulnerability. Chapter after chapter, exercise after exercise, you can gain better clarity about your journey and start finding an answer to the dreaded question, “What else could I do?”

“Ask any job hunter in the tech field today—the current market is unprecedentedly bleak, with no promise of immediate improvement. Tech workers whose contracts were prematurely terminated; who were laid off; or who escaped from toxic workplaces are encouraged by this book to stop banging their heads on frustrating tech job hunts.

Instead, they can carry out the exercises in this book to better understand their values, motivations, and transferable skills. Debbie Levitt encourages readers to consider possibilities that align with their strengths and characteristics, in domains that potentially are more rewarding and stable. Financial planning and budgeting are featured in Life After Tech, a critical step that is not addressed in typical job hunt books.

Debbie Levitt’s upbeat, proactive, and no-nonsense tone is balanced by her own stories of job hunting struggles. She speaks of what she’s experienced and learned; this is real-world stuff, and not the theoretical.”