050: Career Pivot: How to Know When It’s Time for a Change

Most career pivots do not begin with a resignation letter. They begin much earlier, with a question that keeps returning: Is this still the life I want to be living?

For Sandra, the answer emerged slowly. She liked her company and the people she worked with, but she was exhausted, disconnected from the creative parts of herself, and increasingly aware that she did not want her children to look back and remember “Mom was a ghost.” Annette sees a similar pattern with women whose work may not have changed at all, but whose lives have. Children grow up. Caregiving shifts. Priorities move. What once felt tolerable starts to feel impossible to ignore.

The harder part is deciding what those feelings mean. Are you running away from a bad boss or toward something that is calling you? Is it a bad week, a difficult season, or a deeper shift? What happens when your title has become part of your identity, or when a decision affects a partner, children, finances, and the future you cannot see yet?

This conversation makes room for the uncertainty, grief, self-trust, and exploration that can exist long before a career change becomes visible. If questions about your own career keep coming back, you do not have to answer them today. You may only need to stop pushing them aside.

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