The £100,000 questions hiding inside your career decisions

You think of your career as a series of small choices.

Take this role. Do that course. Stay another year. Say yes to the move. Each one feels like a modest, reversible decision you can make on a Tuesday without much fuss.

Here’s what you’re missing. Several of those quiet choices are six-figure questions in disguise, and you’re answering them on autopilot, because they don’t arrive with a price tag attached.

Every year of your working life, you spend enormous capital. Not just money. Time, attention, weekends, energy, the finite years of your prime. And most of it goes where habit and other people’s expectations send it, not where you’d deliberately send it if you saw the true cost written down.