What I Wish I’d Known When I Made a Drastic Career Change

Eight people who took the plunge share the biggest challenges and surprises of starting over

Anna Goldfarb
Forge
Published in
5 min readMay 21, 2019

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WWhen Cat Jones left her job at a large health care company to join a small nonprofit, the first moment of culture shock happened before her training even started — because, as the organization’s sole employee, she…

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Anna Goldfarb
Forge
Writer for

Writes about relationships and pop psychology for The New York Times, Vice, and more. Author of “Clearly, I Didn’t Think This Through.” Lives in Philly.