问HN：得了癌症，换了新工作，换了新老板，不到一年该怎么办？
大家好，
如标题所示，我去年底开始了一份新工作。被猎头挖掘，从一个极其稳定、几乎没有变化、压力低的环境转到一个节奏非常快的“我们来做吧”的环境，这里有着相当大的技术债务。我加入这家公司部分是因为我和将要成为我老板的人有很好的关系，薪水方面也不错 :D
我加入公司的那天，它被另一家公司收购了。好吧，我们继续，整合正在进行中。现在我夹在两种竞争的基础设施观点和不同的工作方式之间。
然后在上个月，我被诊断出得了大C（癌症）。测试已经完成（我想），但看起来这是你如果必须选择一种癌症时最希望得到的那种。治疗方案即将到来……
几周前，我的老板辞职了。现在我有了一位来自另一个国家的新老板。他目前几乎是个未知数。
公平地说，我的直接团队成员和同事（在两家公司）都很棒，我们尽力克服困难，但现在我甚至不知道该怎么做。我感觉自己像个多余的零件，真是糟糕。至于这份工作，我甚至不确定。如果我有一台时光机就好了。明确的指导和方向是其他公司所做的事情！我觉得我犯了一个巨大的错误，在新工作的一切动荡之前我就已经不快乐了。
在家里，我们做了数学计算，幸运的是，即使在最糟糕的情况下，账单也能长期得到覆盖。这是值得非常感激的事情。虽然情况可能不太美好，但没有人来敲门。
我很感激我们生活在一个有社会化医疗的国家，并且前景似乎不错（除非医生在骗我，显然这是自闭症在作祟）。我必须坦诚地说，做任何工作都很困难，因为不知道自己在一两年内是否还活着，这对工作效率有很大的影响。我希望我能活下来，预后是好的，但在当时被告知这个消息是世界上最孤独的感觉。
我仍然非常新手，我知道如果他们想要精简人手，我是一个主要目标……我意识到他们在我生病的时候不能这么做，但你知道这种事情是怎么发展的。
所以，我的同伴们……现在没有太多好事发生。
有没有人能帮我制定一个客观的行动计划，让工作变得稍微容易一些。我不确定我是否在这里犯了一个巨大的职业错误，还是只是对正在发生的一切反应过度。
由于我现在大部分时间都无所事事，因为我无法承诺在某一天出席，因为治疗和预约，我在考虑提升一些技能，也许获得一些认证，但这需要我付出全部的意志力。我只需要保持最新状态，并制定一个计划，以防我被解雇，同时顺利完成治疗并且有效。希望一切顺利。
新老板全是GCP（谷歌云平台）。我的技能集中在Linux、Ansible、Docker、技术写作和高性能集群。我也精通Azure，并且有（稍微过时的）VMware经验，但深度还不错。我知道大家都在尽快逃离VMware，所以对此“meh！”。
总的来说，在专业层面上，我不知道如何为即将发生的事情做好准备。任何建议都欢迎。
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Hello Everyone,<p>As per title really. I started a new job late last year. Head hunted and went from a mega stable nothing ever really changes with a low stress environment where it would cost a lot to get rid of me with over a decade and a half of service to a extremely fast paced "lets do it" environment that is rather "make it work for now" and the technical debt is large. I joined partly because I had a real rapport with the guy who would be my boss. The money helped too :D<p>The day I joined the company it got bought out by another one. Ok, we carry on, integration ongoing. Stuck between two competing outlooks on infrastructure and different ways of working.<p>Then in the last month I have a diagnosis of the big C. Tests are completed (i think) but it looks to be the one you want to get if you had to pick one. Treatment plans inbound imminently...<p>A few weeks ago my boss resigned. Now I have a new boss in another country. He is pretty much an unknown quantity at this point.<p>To be fair my immediate team mates and colleagues (in both companies) are awesome and we get through it as best we can but for right now but I don't even know what to do. I feel so much of a spare part its horrible. The job itself, I am not even sure about. If only I had a time machine. Clear guidance and direction is a thing other companies do! I feel like i have made a huge mistake and I was unhappy before all the upheaval at new job.<p>At home, we did the maths and luckily, even in the worst possible scenario the bills are covered for the very long term. That's something to be very thankful for. It may not be pretty but no one is coming knocking at the door.<p>I am thankful we live in a country with socialised health care and that the outlook is apparently good (unless the doctors are lying to me, obvs <---- Autism at play). I'll be honest and say that doing any work is hard because not knowing if you are going to be alive in a year or two is kind of a drag on productive work. I hope I will be, the prognosis is good but being told that news is the loneliest feeling in the world at the time.<p>I am still very much the newb and I can see if they want to rationalise headcount I am a prime target so..... I realise they cant do it whilst I am ill but you know how these things can go.
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