I Left My First Career at 27, Here’s What I’ve Learned After Starting Over

Simple is better than sexy, fend for yourself first, be pragmatic about your ambitions

Declan Wilson
The Post-Grad Survival Guide
7 min readMar 2, 2020

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Sometimes I wonder if I was scared.

I left my career in June of 2017. A week after my son turned 2 years old.

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