There’s nothing quite like a pandemic to prompt people to rethink their lives. Everyone I know seems to be questioning their purpose or career path. For some, economic uncertainty has triggered a reappraisal of priorities. Others, faced with a drop in income or the loss of a job, are forced to change career.
While the circumstances are unprecedented, the situation is familiar to me. I was weeks away from giving birth to my first child when I was made redundant from a PR job I loved. I remember not being able to see the pavement as I walked home in tears that day, fretting about how to raise a child in London on only my husband’s salary.
“ That career curveball - traumatic at the time - prompted a career shift I would never have contemplated “