--- title: 'When You Don’t Want to But Have To' url: 'https://www.ondrejsramek.cz/en/blog/kdyz-nechces-ale-musis' markdown: 'https://www.ondrejsramek.cz/en/blog/kdyz-nechces-ale-musis.md' lang: en date: '2018-06-26' description: "Sometimes there's simply no other way… You love your job, you do it — hopefully — well. You find a kind of mission in it, as do most of your colleagues. You have a great team, you could almost call it a family. And yet you hand in your notice. Why? After university I was lucky — I had choices. I wa…" taxonomy: category: - práce tag: - 'státní správa' - NÚKIB '': - '' archives_year: - '2018' --- # Sometimes there's simply no other way… You **love** your job, you do it — hopefully — well. You find a kind of **mission** in it, as do most of your colleagues. You have a **great** team, you could almost call it a family. And yet you hand in your notice. Why? After university I was lucky — I had choices. I wanted to work in security, and the newly formed **GovCERT**.CZ was a challenge I wanted to take on. You come out of school full of **ideals**, **energy**, and a drive to **change** how government works for the better. Which, over those five years at the agency, we **hopefully** managed to do — even if from the outside, I dare say, it's hard to see. We were a great team, all of us wanting the same thing — to **improve** how the state functions, to take a better approach to security, to do things meaningfully and correctly. When you have enough equally motivated people around you it runs like clockwork, a **well-oiled** machine. When someone starts throwing **sand** into those smooth gears, it's not good. *People push on... by force*. And force has its limits. I reached mine. I **no longer want** to keep putting in effort when I don't see results. Why would I request the same thing for the **fifth** time... Why deal with the exact same issue **again** half a year later when the position hasn't changed... I don't want to watch **political** tasks take priority over the important ones. I want **results** to stand behind me. I no longer have what it takes — it **exhausts** me mentally. I don't want to burn out. I want to do my job, **effectively**. To go home feeling that I improved something today. That's why **I'm leaving** — *I'm handing in my notice*. We did great things together: we won **Locked Shields**, we always nailed Cyber Coalition on the first day, we built **Cyber Czech**, we helped countless organisations... I'll never *forget* that! I still **care** about the Czech Republic being at the forefront of cybersecurity. I just won't be contributing to it as a member of the CERT team. Only as an educated citizen who isn't afraid to point out shortcomings. I hope a volunteer cyber unit of the Czech Army will be established soon — I'll sign up. *Added in September 2018*: By the end of the year, 3 more people will leave the team... I wonder why. [ Previous Post](https://www.ondrejsramek.cz/en/blog/prezentace-projektu) [Next Post ](https://www.ondrejsramek.cz/en/blog/profesionalita) #### Other Related Posts: [ státní správa ](https://www.ondrejsramek.cz/en/blog/tag:st%C3%A1tn%C3%AD%20spr%C3%A1va#blog_list) [ NÚKIB ](https://www.ondrejsramek.cz/en/blog/tag:N%C3%9AKIB#blog_list) [ Huawei ](https://www.ondrejsramek.cz/en/blog/tag:Huawei#blog_list) [ varování ](https://www.ondrejsramek.cz/en/blog/tag:varov%C3%A1n%C3%AD#blog_list) [ špionáž ](https://www.ondrejsramek.cz/en/blog/tag:%C5%A1pion%C3%A1%C5%BE#blog_list) ### Huawei [Huawei](https://www.ondrejsramek.cz/en/blog/huawei) # Who should be worried? 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