“What choice do I have?” I say. “I’ve had, what, four jobs in six years? I don’t have it in me to start over at Amazon yet again. I need some kind of stability.” I’ve been browsing the internal job board, but the postings are full of words like “relentless” and “tireless” and “obsessed” and there’s far too much bragging about foosball competitions and Beer Tuesdays. It’s probably all very exciting if one is a Soylent-chugging college boy, but I don’t make career decisions based on who has the best Nerf wars.

