I think a Yona career change prediction is in the works for me, and if so, I'm shocked and SO excited!
You probably don’t want to publicly share details, lol, but I’m very happy for you Fidget.
Honestly I don't mind, if you want to hear it. LOL
So I read with Yona in March, hoping to hear about my POI. Well, he did come up briefly in the reading, but Yona said the focus of my reading was career related. So I just let her roll.
She said that in 3 months all the way out to 18-24 months I would be pursuing a new job. She said that it would bring in more money, but more importantly, it would allow me to indulge my creative side. She saw meetings and interviews and success. She said it was all very positive.
Now, my job is not something that anyone would consider "creative". I'm a medical writer in the pharma industry. It's a rather "dry" job, with a lot of regulatory knowledge, but I'm VERY good at what I do and I've worked on drugs that you all see on TV every single day. I enjoy it, but it is not creative. I also work for a great company with awesome benefits and a 6 figure salary. I work at home and I can work any time of the day. I would never leave unless they were to throw me out. So I honestly couldn't believe or take seriously what Yona was saying.
So recently (over the last 3 months) I have become active in the Crohn's disease community. I was diagnosed with the disease a few weeks after breaking up with my POI. I think I had the disease longer than that, but the stress threw me into a flare that lasted 6 months. It took a long time to get a proper diagnosis and even longer to find a treatment that worked for me. I'm now in remission and doing very well, so I decided to help other newly diagnosed patients with the red tape of getting the treatments they need. There's a lot of problems in some states to get the prescribed drugs covered under insurance, so I advocate for new legislation while guiding patients through the red tape to get what they need affordably. I also advocate for education and research. This is just in my free time. Not a job, but a cause that I'm highly passionate about.
Well long story short (or longer), my company does research and drug development for Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Just today I started looking into switching departments to work in immunology. I would like to work with the teams that are developing IBD drugs. I think I could be an asset to them since I have first hand knowledge of the disease. I've reached out to a few people in my company to see what positions are open. I'm very passionate about finding a cure for this. I'm not switching companies (that I know of), but definitely would be working with completely different people within the same division.