7. The Loss You Have Permission to Feel

Everyone focuses on the money. The money is the easy part to talk about. In my experience, it 's not the part that keeps you up.What keeps you up is quieter, and somewhat harder to admit. You lost more than an income. You lost a version of yourself.The losses that aren't on the payslipThe badge that got you through the door. The team you knew how to make laugh. The weekday rhythm that gave the week its shape. The easy answer to so, what do you do, which turns out to have been holding up more of your identity than you noticed.For years your job answered a question you didn't realise you were asking. Who am I. When it goes, the question comes back, loud, and most people have no answer ready.The version nobody warns you aboutHere's the part that surprised me the most. You can keep your job and still lose something.If your company guts the team around you, kills the work you cared about, and reshapes itself into something you don't recognise, then the place you joined is gone. You…