Coast Mode
Comfortable, going nowhere, and not set up to go anywhere.
Tiring in a normal way, not a corrosive one
You can see the next two years and they look like this
Leaving today would create a bigger problem than staying
Who you are
Nothing is wrong. That's the honest summary, and it's also the trap. The job doesn't hurt, it doesn't lead anywhere, and you're not set up to leave — so there's no pressure from any direction, and years pass in a way that feels like nothing much happened.
Coasting isn't a moral failure and sometimes it's the right call: if things outside work need your energy, a job that asks little is a genuine asset. The question is whether you chose this or drifted into it.
The cost is invisible until it isn't. Skills go stale quietly, your network thins by default, and the story you'd tell an interviewer gets harder to assemble every year. None of that announces itself.
You don't have to quit. You do have to keep one foot in the market: one skill, one refreshed resume, three conversations a quarter. That's an hour a month and it's the difference between coasting and being stranded.
You know it's you when…
- Years here have blurred into each other a little
- You haven't opened LinkedIn in about a year
- Nothing is wrong and nothing is moving
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