What It Takes to Make a Major Change

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Hbr, Entrepreneurship, Business/management, Careers, Progress, Harvard, Business/entrepreneurship, Workplace, Human, Management, Resources, Gender, Women, Business, Business/careers, Equality

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🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

If you’re looking to upgrade your work life, know that it’s possible, manageable, and worth the effort. Two women reflect on the actions they took that ended up elevating not only their careers but also their all-around satisfaction.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.4	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:25.5	Amy G, today's your first day back in the office since March 12, 2020.
0:34.5	How's it going?
0:36.5	Mostly good.
0:38.7	It was a little terrifying walking in the door, but I got teary, I have to say.
0:43.5	Teary, you know, this office was such a huge part of my pre-pandemic life, and I missed
0:49.8	it, and I missed the people in it.
0:52.0	So how does being here feel different than it used to for you?
0:54.9	I mean, I feel different.
0:57.4	The life I was leading in March 2020 was incredibly hectic.
1:02.8	I was on a plane three, four times a month.
1:05.1	I was coming up here to the office, which is an hour commute for me twice a week, sometimes
1:11.6	more, and it felt unsustainable, and then when the pandemic hit, you know, I just stayed
1:18.0	home.
1:19.0	It was just such a different way of being.
1:22.5	And I really thought all that time at home, I thought, I'm going to make some big changes.
1:27.6	That life I was leading was totally unsustainable.
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