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Product manager struggling with job dissatisfaction and mental health decline

🧭 workboth problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 5/5

A product manager in Sweden reports that their current role, which involves leading a modernization project with an under-skilled team, is causing severe anxiety and mental health deterioration while they struggle to find new employment in a competitive market.

Who's affected: A product owner/manager in Sweden

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

What people do today

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. A peer-support platform specifically for tech workers to share strategies for 'quiet quitting' or emotional detachment from high-stress roles.
  2. A specialized career coaching service focused on rapid exit strategies for professionals in high-unemployment regions.
  3. A digital tool that helps employees track and document workplace stressors to facilitate medical leave applications or legal documentation.
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Real voices

“my job is slowly making me sick. I have started to have really concerning mental health symptoms, specifically severe anxiety”

Source: Hacker News

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