Career transitions and money worry
A career decision is rarely only a career decision, and money worry is rarely only arithmetic.
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What this is about
Leaving a job, being let go, changing direction late, going freelance, moving countries for work, supporting people back home on one salary: these are situational, not symptoms, and they still take up an enormous amount of a person. In Indian families they usually come with an audience, and with a sense that the decision is not entirely yours to make.
What work here looks like
This is distinct from burnout, which is about depletion inside the work. Here the work is about deciding, and about carrying the uncertainty while you decide, without the shame that tends to attach to money in particular.
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Where this often overlaps.
