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What Major Life Change Looks and Feels Like: Frightening, Confusing, Messy, Horrible, and Freeing. There’s Only One Way Through: Forward.

“I’m looking for another job in software.”

“Why would you do that?”

Silence. She was driving to Carmel. Thinking.

She’s been back in America for about six months. Her friends are asking her what she’s accomplished.

Wrong question.

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Right now it’s not about accomplishing. It’s about becoming.

Finding another job in the industry you left is a full court retreat.

And it’s perfectly understandable. It’s what we do when we lose our signposts.

Terri’s 62. For the last several years she’s been working in Thailand. Kenya. With elephants. A dream job. People keep telling her she’s so lucky.

They have no idea.

Three years ago, after a long, successful career with gigs with Microsoft and Apple, Terri had an opportunity. It had grown out of her love of, and work with, animals. An elephant…