§ Journey
Starting again, not over. Without the LinkedIn theatre.
The honest reason — boredom, ceiling, redundancy risk, ill health, meaning. The capital and skills inventory you actually have. The four pivot shapes (adjacent, sector change, contracting, business). The runway maths for going slower in exchange for going right. How to talk about it without scaring your partner. The 12-month "is this working" test. For the man on the wrong side of 45 who can see another decade in the same role and isn't sure he wants it.
Begin →Boredom, ceiling, redundancy risk, ill health, meaning. The reason underneath the reason you tell yourself.
Skills, network, capital, runway, family bandwidth. The inventory before the imagination.
Adjacent move, sector change, contracting, business, study. The four shapes and which one fits the inventory.
Months you have, what to cut, what to keep. The numbers behind going slower in exchange for going right.
Partner, parents, kids, current employer. In that order, with scripts.
What to expect, when to bail, how to know it's working. The "is this working" test that doesn't punish slow starts.