I Left Banking After a Decade. Here Is What Nobody Tells You About Starting Over

People congratulate you when you leave a job. They say things like "brave move" and "new beginnings" and "you'll figure it out." They mean well. But those words describe a clean narrative - and what actually happens when you leave a career that defined you for years is far less clean, and far more important to understand. I am not writing this as someone who made a graceful exit. I made a…