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The only reason I see for you to resign rather than get yourself fired would be if that would allow you to get a good reference from your present employers for work at future employers. It is probably better to let yourself get fired, and it is definitely better if you are sure that they won't give you a good reference. Here are some benefits of letting yourself get fired.

• You will get paid until they fire you.
• You will be employed while you look for a job. This is helpful in the negotiations for your next job, and it provides an excuse as to why you can't provide anyone from your present company as a reference.
• Depending on what country you work in, you will probably get paid unemployment benefits after you are fired.
• In the future, you can lie about why you no longer work at your present company, rather than saying you have been fired from this job.
• In order to sue the company for firing you illegally, you have to let them fire you rather than you resigning willingly. It's probably not worth it for you to sue them, but I think most firing is illegal, so if you documented stuff very well and had a lawyer, you probably would have a good case.

The situation with your application for permanent residence is quite interesting. Your precarious migrant status makes you effectively a slave to your company, and this is a major asset for them: You are likely to keep your job and do what they say even if they don't give you raises and are mean to you. So maybe they really won't fire you. I don't really know though. Either way, if your application for permanent residency is tied to a particular company, I suspect it would be better for you to wait until your next job. Your savings is a liability to the company.

Don't expect the next job to last very long either, though. Continue to save money, as you have been doing, but pretend when looking for jobs that you need money. (One of the main things that makes it hard for me to get a job is that I have too much money already, so the companies know that I'll quit when the working conditions get bad.) If you are is the United States, I recommend that you plan on retiring within a few years. Get your living expenses down to at most $15,000 per year. If you make $60,000 per year, then $20,000 would go to taxes, $15,000 would go to living expenses, and $25,000 would go to savings. This is $100,000 after a few years, which is enough to last a long time if you accept that you will always be poor. Expect that you will never get permanent residency, but keep trying to get it and acting like you want it, as this will make you more desirable to employers. If have permanent residency by the time you retire, you can move to pretty much anywhere in the United States other than the major cities. If you don't, you can move to pretty much any other country.

The main thing to take away from this whole experience is that you have misunderstood your role as a tech worker: Tech is the industry based on the vision that computers will save the world. Computers won't save the world, so the main job of the company is to maintain this illusion. Having lots of stressed-out employees contributes to the impression that a company is very big, that their technologies are very advanced, that they are doing something new, and that they are doing lots of work. Your job is to convince your superiors that they are very smart and that they are saving the world, so that they may better convince everyone else that the company is the best company and that it is saving the world. (You're better off not believing this yourself.)

For your present job, start pretending that you respect your boss's ego. If people are puzzled by your change, you can say that your boss talked some sense into you or something; the explanation doesn't have to be reasonable. This is hard if your co-workers are your friends; if that is the case, you should also look for new friends.

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