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How to Navigate a Career Crossroads Crisis with Ease
Stop swimming in indecision and take control
When the pandemic flipped the world upside, I was already struggling with balancing my work.
Now, it was a major career crossroads.
As much I convinced myself I could keep all the plates spinning — business owner, writer, editor and everything else — the reality was more complicated. Many of the plates were beginning to lose momentum, their spin slowing to more of a wobble. I showed up to work with writing on my mind and wrote into the night with my thoughts clouded by the following days’ to-do list. With the quality of my output slowly reducing across the board and my focus quickly unraveling, it was evident I couldn’t juggle the various ventures anymore.
Throw in the global pandemic that made the conditions my business operated within untenable — it closed the hospitality industry, the sector we worked in — and it was clear that I had a difficult decision to make. Should I hold on to something I had dedicated so much of myself to or jump headfirst into a potential career that showed signs of early promise?
I’m not alone in facing these difficult career questions during the pandemic. Yet, the answer is seldom easy to arrive at. Significant junctions in our work life are hard to…
