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Advice for People Who Want to Leave their Jobs

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About a year ago, I made one of the biggest decisions in my adult life: I left the job I thought I had always wanted and moved back home to Toronto. When I left that job, I challenged myself to be vocal about it in case it could help someone else who was going through a similar phase of questioning the reality they had constructed for themselves. To my surprise, my experience resonated, and people - mostly students and interns - still reach out to me about how I made my decisions. In hopes of spreading any helpful information and thought processes, this is me writing down the core principles that guided me through that time. Since I left finance, I found myself spending a lot of time in tech and art circles. One thing these communities have in common is that they attract ambitious people - not necessarily ambitious in a traditional sense, but ambitious in their willingness to dream. People have ideas, visions of things they want to build, opinions about how the world should work, and a

About a year ago, I made one of the biggest decisions in my adult life: I left the job I thought I had always wanted and moved back home to Toronto. When I left that job, I challenged myself to be vocal about it in case it could help someone else who was going through a similar phase of questioning the reality they had constructed for themselves. To my surprise, my experience resonated, and people - mostly students and interns - still reach out to me about how I made my decisions. In hopes of spreading any helpful information and thought processes, this is me writing down the core principles…

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