Second Thoughts After A Career Switch — Are They Normal?

Who says you can’t turn your life around in your late 20s?

Anangsha Alammyan
Freelancer’s Hub
Published in
4 min readApr 23, 2022

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Image from the author’s Instagram.

While looking through my Twitter archive, I found an old Tweet from August 2019 that made me super emotional.

If you can feel the pain behind these words, you’d probably understand how stuck and frustrated I’d felt in my old job.

I was working a full-time job and doing a part-time Ph.D. on the side.

I used to work 10-hour days, work out, socialize, and in the remaining time, write something if I wasn’t exhausted enough. I yearned for some freedom and the right headspace to write what I want — something that wasn’t possible in my old job.

Little did I know, in six months, my life was about to change.

I know the 2019-version of Anangsha would be proud of where I am today and how I managed to overcome the insanely high odds stacked against me.

This post is a reflection on the life I’ve led since quitting my job seven months ago, and how…

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