Your career is yours and yours alone, whether you want it to be or not. The sooner you own it, and take responsibility for all of the consequences of said ownership, the sooner you will find yourself creating your own safety from the corporate predators who pillage and destroy in service to the soulless legal fiction they call your master. Not their master, by the way. Yours.

via Loyalty and Layoffs | Heart, Mind and Code.

This is a great read,  long  – yes but spare yourself 15 minutes. It might work as a wake up call.