#career-transition

#career-transition

After my husband died suddenly at the age of 39, both my body and mind remained in a state of shock for years to come. It happened in 2018, when I was 34, and it has taken a long time for the cortisol levels in my body to come back down, and, in parallel, for the fog of grief to lift. It was an extraordinarily intense experience, and I really struggled, especially with work.

I started working after school at the age of 15 and have been working ever since. My family wasn't well-off and needed help, so I took it upon myself to attend college at night and work all day. While I was in school, a gentleman from JPMorgan recruited me to work for the company. I began my career as an auditor after earning my degree in accounting.

Jane Newman spent her evenings watching K-dramas on her recliner during the pandemic lockdowns. She didn't expect they'd spark a curiosity about South Korea that would eventually lead her to move there and start over.

For a while, the biggest professional problem Brad Morgan faced was figuring out how to get toothpaste into a tube. Before you chuckle ... "Believe it or not, pumping toothpaste is one of the most complicated phenomenons you'll ever experience. It's a fluid that, as you pump it faster, it gets thinner," Morgan said. "So without going into great detail, I was working with MIT professionals, the smartest of the smartest on how we can pump toothpaste faster. That was my job."

The night before the Thanksgiving holiday, I received a message that I was being let go from my job, leaving me reeling in shock and tears, as I faced a holiday season with five kids and no stable income. As a freelancer, I'm somewhat used to instability in my work, but as my writing jobs have slowly vanished over the course of the past year, having my last contract gig taken away really stung.

Then the pandemic happened and I did what everybody did: I let my hair go gray. It was a big scary thing, but I was so proud to have done the work - not the hair maintenance work - but the actual self-work to be brave enough to do it. I thought when I had to go back in public again, I would go to the hairdresser and get it done. But I loved the way it looked, so I just let it go.

There is no single answer to the question, "What should I do when I retire?" Retirement offers a chance to reinvent your life and pursue new passions, allowing you to redefine your lifestyle. While I'm not an attorney, given my all-consuming and rewarding working lifestyle, I am also contemplating redefining my life for retirement, so that I can enjoy my time before my "best before date."

After graduating from high school in 2010, I enrolled at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta. I grew up in an environment where I was told that college was the only path to success, so I didn't even consider taking a different route. I quickly realized, though, that college was not the right fit for me: I struggled to balance school and my social life while working part-time jobs, and it was weighing on my mental health.

Wexford-based Denis Whelan is keen to bust some of the myths around immigrants which are becoming ubiquitous online. Over the course of three decades with An Garda Síochána, a career which saw him rise to the rank of Superintendent, Denis Whelan has gained a unique insight and perspective on a lot of things.

Kane: Yeah it's really something that I think I can achieve. I think it would be... Neville: It's mad really, isn't it? Kane: Yeah I just feel like, if I could play in the NFL and do what I've done in football, imagine that as an experience, imagine that as a career, to do two different sports. I mean, I'm not expecting it to be easy. I know a lot of people think I'm just going to turn up and be an NFL kicker.

Learning to code is one of the most accessible ways to open new opportunities in tech. Whether you want to switch careers, understand how digital products work, or build your own ideas, learning to code online gives you a flexible and welcoming place to begin. You do not need experience, a degree, or a technical background. If you are curious and ready to explore, you already have the most important skills to start.

Since I joined Google in 2018, it has been amazing to see the impact I've had. I started at Google Bangalore in India, where I was part of a team using machine learning and AI on Google Maps. After spending a few years there, I moved to the US in 2021 to work at the Google Mountain View location in California.

My first job out of college was at Microsoft, where I worked as a program manager and product manager from 2018 to 2023. In January 2023, I left my Big Tech job to work for a creator commerce platform. There, I developed an AI product, which led to me landing a senior AI role at Microsoft in July 2024. In the current job market, AI feels like the safest domain to be an expert in.

Ask any Latina growing up in the 1990s, and she'll know the variety show "Sábado Gigante." For me, the show was life-changing. I won the competition when I was only 6 years old. Not long after that, I performed for a room full of Sony Executives in Key West and signed with the label. I started my singing career as "La Chiquita Divina," singing traditional Mariachi music. I was born in LA, but learned these songs from my mother, who is Mexican.

I remember back in middle school and high school, I was the girl's friend like, Yeah, you tell him!' Snow says, pantomiming an exaggerated go-girl line reading from her New York hotel. I was never the main girl. I never wanted to be. [Now] I think it's OK to be both. After an early breakout role at 16 in NBC's throwback primetime soap American Dreams, Snow rose to fame in earnest as a go-to supporting player in one teen popcorn movie after another.

When I packed up my New York apartment for the last time, it wasn't just a physical move. I was going through a profound emotional shift, a decision to rethink what success meant to me. A year prior, I had moved from Dallas to chase a dream editorial role, believing that life in the city would be the ultimate marker of success. But after a sudden layoff, the skyline that once inspired me started to feel like a cage.

Knowing she would be undergoing treatments and needed the help, I quit my job to become a manager at one of her four centers. We had previously discussed my future involvement in the company and eventual takeover as director, so while her diagnosis hastened this plan, I felt like I was making the right decision at the time. With this plan, I could help her out while also transitioning into a leadership role.

Juana Molina answers our video call from a hospital bed, reclining in a green T-shirt with two cannulas in her hand. She has done her back in while also playing Whack-a-Mole with hernias, two last year, and two new ones now. Do you know those toys, made of little pieces of wood, and you press the bottom and it goes she makes herself floppy, mimicking a push puppet that's exactly how I was yesterday. But now, says the 64-year-old Argentinian musician, I have so many painkillers, that I She wobbles her eyelids, gurns and gives me two thumbs up.

Last year, building my career and staying focused on my profession mattered the most to me. I didn't have time for really anything else. I'm used to powering through things. I'm a military spouse and I'm raising kids, but over the course of several months, I noticed my health was declining in ways that didn't feel like typical burnout. I found out I was suffering from the effects of two undiagnosed autoimmune conditions: rheumatoid arthritis and Hashimoto's disease.

"I had Brooklyn. I moved to Manchester, which is where David was living and playing for Manchester United. And by this point, he is on the first team; he's a big star," Beckham told podcast host Alex Cooper. "And it was quite the transition for me because I was so happy to be with David, to have a baby. I felt so blessed, but I felt a bit lost as well."