For the last few years or so, there’s been a voice growing louder in my head telling me, “You’re not doing what you’re meant to do.” I’ve ignored it because I felt that it was too late to change, I had too many responsibilities, and I was thinking about what others would say. I had a lot of excuses not to live my best life.
Like for most of us, the pandemic brought my plan for world domination to a sudden halt. When most of us went under lockdown in spring of 2020, I was in my final semester of law school. Admittedly as a dedicated introvert, I didn’t mind working from the comfort of my home while wearing oversized sweatpants and a hoodie. However, my five, ten and fifteen-year career plan soon dissipated.
When Jacqueline Kennedy attended the Designing Your Life for Women Workshop, she was two months into a one-year sabbatical-style career break she had taken to focus on her daughter who was in her last year of high school. Having made this momentous decision, she came to DYL for Women with questions to answer. How could this year be most valuable to her and her daughter? What would the future look like after the break?
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