Curious to learn about how you came to decide that you want to change careers or switch paths.
Women who pivoted careers or changed paths in life and enjoy what you do, what do you do?
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Curious to learn about how you came to decide that you want to change careers or switch paths.
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Well, essentially, I hated my job (administration), but due to where I lived there wasn’t much else available, so I felt stuck until I decided I’d had a fuck-full of it and started looking to get out to do literally anything else.
I’d always wanted to be a writer. Writing is the only thing I feel I can do without having to think about it, so I started reaching out to people to do work for free to build my portfolio. Then, by luck, someone offered me a job based on my old social media account and from there I was able to move into a job that allowed me to write every day, which helped build a solid foundation for new skills.
Now I’m a copywriter living in a major UK city and I absolutely love it. Sometimes I have to pinch myself because it still feels unreal, the difference between my working life now and 5 years ago. I feel very lucky.