The journey from that redundancy letter to where I stand today has not been linear. There have been false starts. Recalibrations. Days of genuine doubt, when the safety of the old life looked almost appealing set against the uncertainty of building something new — days when I caught myself idly wondering what the old team […]
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There is something nobody prepares you for when you leave a long career. Not the paperwork. Not the practicalities. Not even the identity crisis, though that arrives reliably enough, usually around week three, when the novelty wears thin, and the silence gets loud. What nobody prepares you for is the temptation to — go back.
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When the offer came, I was not entirely sure what I expected to feel. Shock, perhaps. Anger. That particular sting of being told a role you have given years of your life to is no longer required — the small, undignified indignation of it. What I actually felt, sitting at the kitchen table with that
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There comes a point — and I do wish somebody had told me this a decade earlier — where the question is no longer whether you can do the job. It is whether the job is still doing anything meaningful for you. For a very long time, I confused capability with purpose. I was still
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On leaving a career that no longer fits, finding the courage to start over, and building something that is entirely, unapologetically mine. Twenty-four years in corporate. When I say it out loud, it still surprises me. That is not a phase, and it isn’t a chapter. That is a substantial portion of one life, handed
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