Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the squiggly careers podcast.

Every week we get together to help you navigate the ups and downs in your squiggly career

and share lots of practical ideas for action and tools to try out.

We really hope just give you that bit more confidence, clarity and control in your career.

And today we're talking about how to make

difficult decisions during your career. And the episode today was inspired by some conversations

we were having with people last week about some difficult decisions that they had made.

And I don't want to share those discussions because they were private ones. But my reflections in listening to the people that were making the decisions

were that they'd been wrangling with them for a little bit of time,

that there had been quite a lot of energy absorbed in making that decision.

But now they had got to a point of clarity.

They were actually quite positive about what was coming next for them. I admired them a lot. I was like, wow, that does sound

really, really tough. And I hope that if Sarah and I are faced with some decisions that might be

similar to the ones that they were having, that we could make them and have the same level of clarity

and positive about what was moving

forward. And it also made me think about, well, lots of us have difficult career decisions

and what can we all learn together so that we can face those decisions with that confidence

and with that clarity about what we do next. And Sarah and I were trying to reflect on what are

some of those common, difficult career decisions. So here's where we got to. And Sarah and I were trying to reflect on what are some of those common, difficult

career decisions. So here's where we got to. And maybe you relate to one of these or maybe

there's a different one, but we got to leaving a job, making that decision that now is the

time to leave or perhaps a company. Maybe you're like, oh, for whatever reason, this company

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