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Pivot Your Career by Faizun Kamal
We are stuck. Quarantined inside our homes, the days starting to become a blur. We are worried about our livelihoods, wondering if we will still have a job when the pandemic ends. How will we pay our bills and provide for our families? As dark thoughts take over, it very quickly becomes a downward spiral. When you feel like you’re at the end of the rope, tie a knot and hang on. You may be at the end of a chapter that’s ending and not realize that you are at the beginning of a new one. In 2015, after almost a decade in the corporate world, I was laid off. I did not have a plan or a roadmap for my future. I was not sure what the
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next chapter of my life would look like. The one thing that I was totally certain of, and never wavered on, however, was the quiet determination that I was never again going to be an employee. I was no longer willing to trade my time, my freedom, my soul - for money. You see, like so many people we all know, I got a job. Not because it was my calling. Or because I felt so
