
When the Thing That Defined You Ends
What happens when the career, title, or company name that once explained you disappears? A reflection on professional identity, career disruption, and where the comeback begins.
Notes on professional visibility and reinvention: how we are found, judged, trusted, and remembered, and how we rebuild when a career or identity-defining chapter ends — from Meredith Littman
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