In May 2018, I quit my job as a youth leadership program director without having secured another. It was an abrupt decision to leave a role I had been doing for three years with nothing else lined up, but it was necessary for my mental health. The question for me wasn’t so much of if I would find another job, but when I would find one with comparable pay and benefits.
When I quit, we didn’t have much of a financial safety net. My husband was in graduate school and we had a 6-month-old baby — we were already struggling to make ends meet. We weren’t behind on any bills, but also not truly moving ahead in tackling the nearly $25,000 we owed in credit card debt.
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