Career Change: Signs, Decisions and a Plan

A career change usually starts long before anyone resigns. It starts as a slow mismatch between the work and the person doing it, and the hard part is telling a rough quarter apart from a real signal.

These guides follow the sequence most people actually go through. First, the signs that you have outgrown the role. Then the decision itself: whose definition of success you have been working to, what to ignore, and how to choose a path on your own terms this time. Finally, the plan, including how to think about a transition the way a company thinks about an acquisition, so the move does not cost you the momentum you have already built.