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From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday.

Now when I was at the beginning of my career, long time ago now, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

I wanted to be a writer and I wanted to write specifically for magazines.

I was lucky that way to have that certainty.

But also for a lot of us that's just how the beginnings of our careers often work.

We start out with a big goal and then sometime in the middle for many people,

including me, things change.

Maybe you make partner land the big title and ask, well, what now?

Or maybe somewhere along the way you just lose interest in the path.

Say, there's a global pandemic and it shifts all of your priorities.

At some point, you look up and it's time to do something new,

but then you have to ask yourself, okay, but what?

Today, I'm talking to my friend, Fran Hauser, about that question.

I first met Fran when we both worked for Timing.

Her job was to help titles like People Magazine build their digital presence

and she was great at it.

But her job kept expanding and she kept growing as a person until one day,

it just didn't light her up in the same way.

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