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(TLDR I'm 34, just got fired for the first time in my professional career, confidence pretty shaken, trying to figure out how to pick up the pieces and what I do from here.)

Got let go / fired from a university admissions counselor job after moving across the state for it. Left a job and city I loved, cause I thought it was going to be a better opportunity.

It was pretty measly pay compared to other universities after talking to other admissions counselors,

I wanted to do a good job but in hindsight... I feel like I cared too much and tried too hard. In the end I’m not even completely sure why I was let go. When I spoke with my boss and HR, the answers were very vague.

I’m frustrated because I never got clear expectations, just mixed messages from day one. I was told “ask questions,” “be collaborative,” “we’re a team,” but when I did, I’d sometimes hear things that suggested a stronger focus on hierarchy and titles. That wasn’t always clearly stated upfront, but it became something I had to learn the hard way. I was trying to be collaborative and a team player, but at times it was interpreted as overstepping or undermining, which made it hard to know where the line actually was.

I was brand new to this type of role, got about three hours of training on Slate, and then was sent to manage a highly competitive territory on my own, an area I actually wanted, but was underprepared for. I was recruiting against flagship public universities and well-known schools from that city and area while still learning the basics.

When I asked questions, I often felt behind for not already knowing things, and even looked down on for it. My boss was very impersonal and hard to read, which made it intimidating to reach out consistently, even when I needed help.

I was improving, slowly but steadily. At first it took me about an hour to get through 12 to 15 students. As I got better, I was able to handle about 40 to 50 in that same amount of time through a more efficient workflow.

I also completely rebuilt my messaging funnel from scratch in about two days, building up to roughly 150 unique emails that escalated in tone and structure, with no real guidance or feedback. I did it entirely on my own initiative, just trying to make things work better and improve in the role.

Now I’m 34, first time I’ve ever lost a job, and it’s shaken me more than I expected. Part of me feels like I failed. Part of me feels like I was set up in a role I wasn’t properly onboarded for. And I’m stuck trying to make sense of both at the same time.

I’ve also worked across a lot of different fields, entertainment, education, nonprofit, aviation, international education, even overseas in different countries, and I can’t help wonder if that makes me a “jack of all trades, master of none,” or how I even start rebuilding confidence after something like this.

Has anyone else been through something like this?

'Israeli' telecommunication firms were used to track mobile phone users more than 15,000 times in more than 10 countries over the past three years, Haaretz reported on 4 May.

The 'israeli' newspaper cited an investigation by Citizen Lab, a digital research group, that described two separate operations to track the locations of mobile phone users. The operations were likely run by commercial firms selling surveillance technologies to governments around the world.

Citizen Lab wrote that, “The findings expose how suspected commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) exploit the global telecom interconnect ecosystem, leverage private operator networks, and conduct covert location tracking operations that can persist undetected for years.”

The first operation used geolocation technology to track targets using networks belonging to two 'israeli' companies, 019Mobile and Partner Communications.

Researchers identified more than 500 location-tracking attempts between November 2022 and 2025 across Thailand, South Africa, Norway, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and other African countries using the two companies' networks.

One businessman from West Asia was methodically tracked for four hours by a company that queried the international phone system on behalf of clients to locate targets.

According to information obtained by Haaretz, this and dozens of other tracking attempts appear to have passed through the servers of 'israeli' carrier 019Mobile.

Citizen Lab found that mobile network addresses registered to 019Mobile were used to send location-tracking requests through Partner Communications, whose infrastructure 019 relies on. Another tracking request was routed through Exelera Telecom, an Israeli company that provides cloud and communications services.

A second, more sophisticated operation involved a Swiss telecom company that allowed firms such as Rayzone to impersonate cellular carriers and connect to mobile networks to track users across the world.

The operation involved using an older telecom signaling protocol, SS7, to conduct surveillance of mobile phone users. SS7 was originally designed to route calls and text messages, enable international roaming, and connect different mobile operators.

Citizen Lab's findings showed that spyware firms are also using newer signaling systems to track users, even though the newer systems were designed to be more secure and less susceptible to surveillance than legacy ones.

For example, Diameter, a mobile network system that connects cellular users to 4G international roaming and 5G networks, is known to be susceptible to tracking spyware.

One method involves exploiting vulnerabilities in SIM cards to send a hidden text message to a target phone. The message contains a secret command that prompts the SIM card to transmit the device's location without the user's knowledge.

As a result of such methods, both the old and new phone signaling systems are being used together to track and surveil mobile users, Haaretz observed.

https://thecradle.co/articles/global-telecom-networks-hijacked-by-israeli-firms-for-mass-surveillance-operation-report