“Brainstorm your options. What aspects of your previous role did you enjoy, what do you want to avoid if possible?  Many people enjoy ‘portfolio careers’ – could you find interim employment to tide you over and create a side hustle doing the thing you really love?  Be open to all possibilities.  If someone had told me a year ago that I’d have set up my own consultancy I would never have believed them.  Take yourself out of your comfort zone, you never know where it might lead you.”

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