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I’ve been flirting with the idea of leaving corporate for years now and “tested” a number of non-corporate job options while still keeping my day job! Here are some of them.
I’m a former director of product in tech who just quit her job to take a year off of work to try a bunch of experiments to figure out how to career pivot and maximize for more joy, meaning, and free time. Follow along for more experiment learnings and thoughts about work, happiness, and meaning
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So I tested out three non corporate jobs while I was still in my nine to five, and here's how I did it and what I learned. Number one, I thought I wanted to be a therapist, and I wanted to find some way to test this out before committing to going back to school. So I volunteered for a year on the suicide prevention hotline, taking calls for four hours a week. And this is something that a lot of people who are applying to social work or other types of programs like that actually do. And I got to sit alongside a lot of those people and realize that other people are way more wired for emotional labor than I am. Number two is going to work for a nonprofit. I took on a couple of year long, deeper commitments with nonprofits on both the execution side and the grant giving side. On the execution side, helping to organize events with volunteers, and And on the grant giving side, helping to distribute grant money to other local nonprofits. And through this process, I realized that neither one of those was really giving me the feeling of impact that I was looking for in my job. And the third one is being a yoga teacher. I got
