Megsy complained that she was objectified in her job as suitcase girl for Deal or No Deal. So she quit. Then when she married Harry she complained about waving to crowds, following protocol, and dealing with tabloids. So she quit. But no, it's never her fault. It's not her fault for willingly working in an industry that focuses on appearance. Stop the nonsense. Stop with the obsessive image-crafting.". The former Fox News host closed the segment stating that "we don't feel sorry for you," telling the royal to "take a step back.". "Be quiet for a while and do something meaningful that is not about you," the host said. "Then maybe we will feel inspired to do Liz Truss has resigned as prime minister, just 44 days since she met the Queen at Balmoral to be asked to form a government. She has, by far, had the shortest tenure of any British prime minister. 18/10/2022. Television presenter Lorraine Keane has revealed why it was 'worth' leaving TV3, even if it was 'a little bit scary' at the time. After working for large companies for 12 years, Lorraine decided to become self-employed in order to spend more time with her husband and daughters. He's so dedicated he spends the work week in a different city from where his wife lives. He doesn't commute to the job. He commutes to their apartment. She's a scientific researcher, which VraPr0F. Câu hỏi Her job was so _________ that she decided to quit it. A. interesting B. satisfactory C. stressful D. wonderful Mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions. Her job was so _________ that she decided to quit it. A. interesting B. satisfactory C. stressful D. wonderful Xem chi tiết Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following is so ______ to her children that she has decided to quit her job to stay at home and look after Them. A. persistent B. kind C. responsible D. devotedĐọc tiếp Xem chi tiết Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions. She intended to quit her job to stay at home and look into her sick mother. A. to quit B. to C. at D. into Xem chi tiết Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following intended to quit her job to stay at home and look into her sick mother. A. to quit B. to C. at D. into Đọc tiếp Xem chi tiết Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 33 to years ago, my daughter was studying English at a university on the south coast. One evening she phoned to tell me that what she really wanted to do was looking 33 _____ the world, so she was looking into the possibility of working in another country. She had seen several 34 _____ in the newspaper for student tea...Đọc tiếp Xem chi tiết Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 33 to 37. Fill in the appropriate word in question 36 Some years ago, my daughter was studying English at a university on the south coast. One evening she phoned to tell me that what she really wanted to do was looking 33 _____ the world, so she was looking into the possibility of working in another country. She had seen severa...Đọc tiếp Xem chi tiết Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 33 to years ago, my daughter was studying English at a university on the south coast. One evening she phoned to tell me that what she really wanted to do was looking 33 _____ the world, so she was looking into the possibility of working in another country. She had seen several 34 _____ in the newspaper for student tea...Đọc tiếp Xem chi tiết Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 33 to years ago, my daughter was studying English at a university on the south coast. One evening she phoned to tell me that what she really wanted to do was looking 33 _____ the world, so she was looking into the possibility of working in another country. She had seen several 34 _____ in the newspaper for student tea...Đọc tiếp Xem chi tiết Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 33 to 37. Fill in the appropriate word in question 35 Some years ago, my daughter was studying English at a university on the south coast. One evening she phoned to tell me that what she really wanted to do was looking 33 _____ the world, so she was looking into the possibility of working in another country. She had seen severa...Đọc tiếp Xem chi tiết So you’ve made your decision you’re going to resign. Congratulations! And you’re not alone as the Great Resignation rages on, a record million employees in the United States quit their jobs in March, according to the Department of Labor. Considering that by the end of 2021 more than 47 million Americans had left their jobs voluntarily, it might seem like a straightforward process. But is it?To help you prepare to hand in your notice, we spoke with three women who did so recently. We also asked Pennsylvania-based career strategist Jennifer Wegman for advice on how to tell your employer about your decision. Should you be completely honest? Well, that closureBefore deciding how much you want to tell your employers when resigning, you need to assess the situation. “There are many factors that play into this your management, your workplace, the possible implications,” says Wegman. “You should consider all of those. And most importantly, you do not have to give a reason for your resignation at all.”Remember that you are the most important piece of the puzzle. Do you want your employer to know why you have made your decision? There can be benefits. “Ultimately, the biggest benefit of honesty is the personal sense of closure,” Wegman says. “When you are honest about the reasons why you’re leaving, it provides you with a chance to let out all the stuff you have been holding in for, possibly, a long time.”“Ultimately, the biggest benefit of honesty is the personal sense of closure.”Take Christina, 31, who used to work as a senior brand manager at a marketing agency. After feeling unfulfilled in her role and eventually realizing she was ready for a change, Christina decided to talk with the management before handing in her notice. “I was very honest with them. I told them about how I felt about my work, that it didnt bring me any more joy and that my mental health was suffering. But despite all that, I wanted to leave with good feelings on both sides,” she says. At first, Christina’s employers offered her alternative positions within the company. After a few days, however, they accepted her decision. “I felt so relieved, suddenly all the anxiety and pressure I had felt were gone. I felt so proud of myself – I had stood up for what I wanted.”“I felt so relieved, suddenly all the anxiety and pressure I had felt were gone.”If you plan to tell your employer why you are leaving the company, it’s important to consider how you present the information. “If you decide to be honest, be as constructive as possible,” Wegman says. “Focus on I’ statements rather than you’ statements.”For example, try saying, “I am leaving because I do not feel like there is enough opportunity for promotion.” Don’t say, “You don’t provide any opportunities for me to move up.”Don’t forget to be polite either. “When you sit down to give your notice, you can ask if your employer is open to learning more about why you are leaving.”Honesty is not mandatoryResigning is not as straightforward as it may seem, however, and honesty may not always be the best policy. “If you do want to give a reason for quitting, then you have to let the situation be your guide,” Wegman says. “The overall workplace culture, your relationship with the management, how close you are with your colleagues… [these factors] all play a significant role in whether full transparency when leaving the job is warranted – or deserved.” The bottom line? You have to decide what will work best for may feel that it’s best not to explain yourself. This was the case for Danielle, 28, who used to work as a producer in a video production house. “I had gotten a lot of advice from other people in the production industry [that I should] retain the relationship with my previous employer, no matter what the relationship or what the power dynamic was [like],” she says. After working for the company for a little over a year, Danielle had plenty of reasons to quit lack of organization at the company; lack of clarity on her responsibilities; no opportunities for growth; and a feeling of burnout. Though she had plenty to complain about, she decided not to go into detail when it came to the exit interview. “I tried to approach it cleverly – instead of listing all the things I didn’t enjoy within my role, I gave them feedback about what would have helped me during my time there, in the hope that maybe they could take some of that in and make the position better for the next person,” she says you should keep in mind the potential consequences of your resignation. “There is always a possibility that people will take it upon themselves to make things difficult unofficially if they don’t like what you said – but you have to cross that bridge when you come to it.”Christina feels lucky that her honesty didnt lead to any negative consequences, while, to Danielle, being more upfront would have been too much of a risk. “Looking back, I still feel there was a limit to what I could have said, especially since my goal was to stay in the industry. I did hold back but I was sincere,” Danielle says. “There were a lot of things I could have said but I don’t regret not being fully honest.”“Looking back, I still feel there was a limit to what I could have said, especially since my goal was to stay in the industry.”So what should you do when you feel like your reputation could take a hit after you resign? “The best way to deal with this is to take care of your reputation before it becomes an issue,” says Wegman. Don’t let your work environment or industry control you and your decisions. Be the one who controls it and shapes it in a way that works for you and your professional goals.“Network early and often online and in-person so that you are the one in control of your reputation within a company, industry, or community,” Wegman says. “Building a personal brand and a trusted network is the best way to combat negativity in times of career transition because you have already built up a level of trust with people.” If you have a strong reputation and good relationships within your industry, you can easily clear up any negativity or misunderstandings that might can be goldenBeing upfront about your reasons for resigning can have professional and personal benefits you and your employer can get a sense of closure, and you leave the workplace feeling like you’ve done all you could have. Sometimes, however, it’s just easier not to be completely honest. Fatima, 26, who now works as a sales development representative at a tech company, found herself in such a situation when she was working in a healthcare recruitment firm in an environment that was toxic and male-dominated.“Every day, I was made to feel like as a woman – a woman who was very successful at her job – I was an unusual case, because men are better workers and are the ones set to succeed,” she says. “Now I know how completely wrong and untrue this is – but at the time, this communication got into my head and I began believing it.” At the same time, Fatima felt that she was not progressing at work, but was heading for burnout. “The company’s selling point was that it was available to customers 24/7 – and they expected their employees to be available and happy to work 24/7 as well,” she says. “So many times I would get emails late at night, [I was] expected to reply and engage in the task. At the same time, I realized my job was not teaching me anything new and I was just dreading it so much. I knew I needed to leave.”So how should you approach a situation like this? When it comes to working in an environment that doesn’t value you — or is simply toxic — Wegman says less is more.’ “In some workplace cultures, your honesty about why you’re leaving could be used against you in the future.”The employer may decide not to give you a recommendation or may write one that is not helpful to you. This could hinder you from finding another job or may affect dealings with a new employer.“In some workplace cultures, your honesty about why you’re leaving could be used against you in the future.”“In the meeting with my manager, I was asked whether my job is something I see myself doing for a long time. I immediately said no – but that is as far as I went with honesty,” Fatima recalls. “I wasn’t honest about why I wanted to leave. I just couldn’t see myself listing all the things that were wrong with the job and with the company – and there were many. I was stressed. I didn’t know how they would react, but I also felt like I needed to tell them why I made my decision.”Such behavior is common, according to Wegman. Many of us feel like we have to justify our decisions and explain what we feel and think – especially at work. Fatima gave her manager different, less significant reasons as to why she had decided to quit. “I said that it’s not something I want to do career-wise, that my husband didn’t like me working such long hours, that I wanted to focus on helping my father with his business… Though only the first one was true.”Wegman says we should ignore the compulsion to justify ourselves. “Just as it isn’t necessary to justify saying no,’ in a situation, it is not necessary to justify I quit,’ either,” she says. “A resignation with applicable notice should be sufficient to leave most positions.”“Just as it isn’t necessary to justify saying no,’ in a situation, it is not necessary to justify I quit,’ either.”Fatima doesn’t regret leaving, but wishes she had been more open about her reasons. She says, “Thinking now, I wish I’d stood up for myself and been clear about how the job and the company made me feel. I wish I’d said that the way they were treating me, and other women too, was wrong – and that I was underpaid, overworked, constantly stressed, and seriously misled during the hiring interview.”Regret is normal, especially in a situation like this. Though instead of beating yourself up for not confronting your manager about all the things that were wrong in the workplace, try to learn from the situation. “Every experience can be used as a learning curve. They help to clarify what we do and don’t want in our lives,” says Wegman. “By being honest with ourselves, we can clarify our key values, move forward and find workplaces, positions, and opportunities that align more closely with them.”Names have been changed to protect the identity of the intervieweesPhoto Welcome to the JungleFollow Welcome to the Jungle on Facebook on LinkedIn and on Instagram and subscribe to our newsletter to get our latest articles every day! Maggie Perkins, 30, engaged in "quiet quitting" while working as a teacher beginning in 2018. She actually quit in 2020 because "the conditions were not sustainable to have a quality of life." Now, she's trying to help others avoid burnout while staying engaged and collecting a paycheck. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. Maggie Perkins loved being a teacher."I want to be a teacher every day of my life, for the rest of my life," the 30-year-old told Insider. "It's what I enjoy most."But her passion didn't stop the burnout that came from working 60-hour weeks on a salary that stayed under $50,000 for five years. In 2018, she decided she needed a change and began engaging in what's recently become known as "quiet quitting."The term, which gained traction after Insider published a story on "coasting culture" in March 2022, describes the not-so-new idea of establishing work-life boundaries while still collecting a paycheck. Its growing popularity on TikTok shows how millennial and Gen Z workers are pushing back on the expectation that they should go above and beyond what they are paid to do. But the idea is older than these young generations and echoes the "work to rule" tactic that unions have used, in which workers do what they are contractually obligated to and nothing more. Through the "Great Resignation," many workers have wielded the power to quit their jobs and pursue more attractive opportunities to get higher pay and more flexibility. Now, however, the quiet-quitting trend suggests workers are trying to find ways to make their current jobs work for them. Perkins quit in 2020 and said she doesn't have any plans to return. She's pursuing her in Educational Theory and Practice and focusing her research on teacher attrition — specifically, why teachers with significant qualifications and experience ultimately choose to leave the profession. Start slow and prioritize what must get done to keep your jobAs a teacher in private and public schools in Georgia and Florida, Perkins said she spent "hundreds if not thousands" of her own dollars a year on classroom supplies, dealt with harassment from parents, and developed "horrible" migraines. "It's like a frog in boiling water," she said. "It eventually becomes unsustainable. And either you burn out, or you have to make a choice." Perkins advises would-be quiet quitters to "scale back slowly" and "quietly" — not drawing too much attention to the change."It can't be overnight," she said. "If you've been the teacher who carries home a ton of work and stays late, it will be incredibly noticeable if you just do this suddenly," adding that one needs to do it in a way that's "sustainable and not going to get you fired."In 2018, Perkins began leaving school after working her exact number of contracted hours to pick up her daughter from daycare. This laid the groundwork for some work-life balance, but between grading, lesson planning, and meetings, she said she found it almost impossible to get all of her work done during the school day. To cut down on her hours, Perkins began exploring automated-grading systems, not grading everything that was assigned, and having students highlight the portions of their essays that corresponded to a grading rubric. "I think this actually made me a better teacher because I became a lot more efficient and I had to prioritize what's worth it," she said. "And I had to be really judicious with my effort."Quiet quitting doesn't have to mean you're no longer engaged in your jobWhen Perkins first heard the term "quiet quitting" last year, it resonated with her, and she began posting videos on TikTok about her experience. "It was such a simple explanation to something that had been very life-changing for me and healthy for me," she prefers the term "quiet working," however, because many teachers genuinely engage in their jobs and don't want to quit. "You don't even have to just give up, but scale back on your commitment, or your presence, or your hustle," she said. "And you're still getting the job done. You're not shorting your company on their productivity. You're doing what you're expected to do."Perkins says the effort looks different for everyone. For her, it meant giving 100 percent of herself between the hours of 800 and 400 but not taking work home. "If I couldn't do it during my contract hours, I wasn't going to do it," she people, however, choose to "just do enough not to get fired.""They don't have aspirations to move up in that company," she said. "They do have aspirations to just clock in, clock out, and then go hiking. And that's good for them." Sometimes, going above and beyond is the path to burnoutPerkins has seen some critics argue that "quiet-quitting teachers" are doing students a disservice. But in her estimation, the expectation that teachers should always "go above and beyond" is the real problem, and that "just doing your job" should be enough. A 2021 Gallup poll found that the share of US workers who were "engaged" in their work fell to 34% in 2021, the first decline in over a decade. Many teachers, whom society has long characterized as overworked and underpaid — and are being fervently sought out by schools across the country looking to fill openings — have found themselves drawn to the quiet-quitting movement, said believes the term "teacher shortage" is a misnomer It's a "teacher exodus.""Not because they became less passionate or became uncertified," she said. "But because it was time for them to not work under those conditions." Though Perkins' future career path is unclear, her quality of life is better since she left the classroom "I haven't had a single migraine since."If you have a story to tell about "quiet quitting" reach out to this reporter at jzinkula article was originally published in August 2022. Jobs, homes, relationships—tens of millions of Americans walked away from their lives after COVID-19 changed the world as we know it. For some, joining the Great Resignation was an opportunity for self-reinvention; for others, a shift in circumstances—from childcare needs to personal safety to mental health struggles. Here, eight women open up about quitting their lives how it all started and how it’s going Travel Producer Whose Assignment Abroad Became PermanentLilit Marcus, 39, Hong KongThe diagnosis came in November 2019 breast cancer, stage IIB. For Lilit, the news was especially gutting. She had moved to Hong Kong from New York just weeks earlier, having scored a coveted job transfer in her role as a CNN travel producer. One moment, she was planning adventures in Bali and Thailand. The next, she was mapping out a partial mastectomy and months of radiation and chemo. She had barely experienced her new life before being dealt began that January, just as the novel coronavirus was becoming a global concern. Soon, nobody was jetting off to Uluwatu or hitting the town for fun nights with friends. Lilit felt weirdly advanced in having already made peace with these circumstances. Welcome to the “2020 sucks” club. I’ve been here since the in her hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina, Lilit’s parents thought she should come back; they were worried about her health. She tried to imagine crashing with her folks—her driver’s license expired, her old friends no longer around—and knew it wasn’t the move. She had worked too hard for Hong Kong. Hong Kong was her home it’s too soon for words like “remission” and “cured,” her care plan is going well. These days, she thinks about cancer the way a lot of people are thinking about COVID-19 as an enduring situation that demands long-term protective adjustment. “It’s not over over,” Lilit says. “But I can manage it. I can have a pretty much normal life, which is really nice.”The Marketing Assistant Turned Mushroom ForagerAlexis Nikole Nelson, 29, Columbus, OhioIn the beginning, Alexis wasn’t even thinking about leaving her marketing job. She had supportive managers and a steady paycheck. She had health insurance. Quitting during a pandemic? That would just be in April 2020, she made a TikTok about edible garden weeds. It went viral, and Alexis suddenly found herself internet famous. Her following exploded, and so did the demand for fresh content. As the Black Forager, she shared tips for finding and eating wild plants on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Now Alexis had two jobs Zooming all day for work work, then cultivating her social channels late into the night. When a rare vacation day was thwarted by a crisis at her marketing gig, Alexis had a breakdown. She realized she’d been so afraid of making a professional leap that she was jeopardizing both pursuits, to say nothing of her mental health. It was time, she knew, to unlearn the feeling that she should be grateful for the opportunity to run herself ragged. One of her jobs had to go. She chose to take a chance on the Black Forager brand she’d created, resigning from her “office” job in October 2021. Since then, things have been…busy. There’s a book deal plus leadership opportunities in the foraging and vegan cooking space. Still, Alexis is wary of burning out, and maybe that’s the most valuable learning she’s had yet. “These days, I get to wake up and be like, Is this adding value to my general existence?” she says. “One day in the future, the answer might be no. And then I’ll do something else.”The Second Grade Teacher Turned Marketplace FounderJojo Trumbly, 29, Spring, TexasJojo was an amazing second grade teacher, the kind who collected Pokémon cards and riffed on the wonders of outer space. It wasn’t easy when the world shut down and her classroom shrank to a video grid of little faces. But that was also the week she learned she and her husband were expecting a baby—some happy news amid the summer came and her school district still hadn’t settled on a plan for the fall 2020 term, she started to worry. Would they stay remote? Return to in-person? No one had an answer. But they wanted a decision from Jojo as to whether she’d continue teaching. She had seen news reports of people who contracted COVID-19 in the workplace—parents who became too sick to care for their kids, moms who died without getting to say goodbye. Their stories haunted her. With vaccines still months away, classroom work felt way too risky. She decided to found work with a digital education platform and began streaming classes for kids in China, sometimes at 3 Texas time. The schedule became too much once her baby daughter arrived in December 2020. Time to switch gears wanted to bring her community together. That spring, she launched a marketplace for small purveyors, an outdoor bazaar where folks could shop for handmade wares and such. It’s been rewarding, but the logistics are a lot. She’s not sure how much longer she’ll keep it up. Next, she may start a marketing firm. A dance studio isn’t out of the question someday. “I wanna do all the things,” she says. “I’ve got my finger on the pulse.”The Sunday School Teacher Turned NovelistJacquie Campos, 26, outside Asheville, North CarolinaJacquie had always thought of herself as a writer. But working as a Sunday school teacher through the darkest days of COVID-19 left little time for creativity. Many of her students and their families in Jacksonville, Florida, had been hit hard by the pandemic, and she felt overwhelmed by the lack of social support for her struggling community. After a year of doing her best to help, she was spiritually and professionally time had come to answer a question she’d been asking for a while What would happen if she gave herself the space to really write? She quit her job in April 2021 and booked two consecutive stays in remote cabins—one month in Alabama, followed by another month in North Carolina. Growing up in a big family, Jacquie had never been so alone before. Now, in solitude, the words flowed. She began hashing out a novel—a project she had long dreamed of tackling. When her two months were up, she didn’t want to go back to her Before Life. She got a work-from-home position as a virtual assistant, rented a longer-term cottage, and kept writing. All along, she was tapping into her savings, a finite resource. Then, in October 2021, she lost her remote was left thinking deeply about work and identity. She poured her thoughts onto the page, churning out a play inspired by a career-themed childhood field trip. She liked what she’d written and decided to stage it for a digital audience right from her living room. She sold tickets on TikTok, and to her surprise, people actually showed up—and they liked her work too. The proceeds helped cover her rent. “Now I can sustain myself for a little longer here, just writing,” Jacquie says. “Hopefully, it continues to work out.”The Infection Preventionist Nurse Turned Concert OrganizerJade Van Kley, 31, Nashville, Tennessee Concerts are Jade’s favorite thing. The raw energy of a live set? Nothing compares. She used to tour with her friends’ bands, snapping photos of their gigs for social media. Even after becoming a nurse, she maintained her ties to the scene. She was a the pandemic hit, Jade found herself on the front lines—first doing infectious-disease surveillance at the Minnesota Department of Health, then at a nearby VA hospital as an infection preventionist RN. Conditions were grim. Patients were suffering. Jade’s coworkers were burning out. Taking in the despair all around her, Jade was struck by a feeling Maybe her public-health expertise could do more than keep people safe—maybe she could also help the music world that had so enriched her September 2020, she packed up her car and moved to Nashville, mostly on gut instinct. She sent word to her music contacts to let them know she was available to oversee COVID-19-related health and safety logistics for in-person concerts and tours; she’d help plan socially distanced outdoor performances, arrange testing for talent and crew—whatever was needed to make music possible heard back from a connection at Third Man Records. She heard back from a musician-turned-writer friend who was filming a movie up in Canada. She heard back from the management team for Jason Isbell. They all wanted Jade’s help. Her business, Backline Nurse Consulting, took her greatest hope is that her work will become obsolete because that will mean the pandemic is over. “I want to make sure that if something like this should ever happen again, artists have more protections in place,” she says. “How can we continue to improve and heed the lessons we learned?The Tech Worker Turned Digital NomadDevin Spady, 25, EverywhereDevin was never a staycation kind of person. Whenever possible, she was out of town—trekking through South America and all over Europe. Office jobs kept her rooted to an address, but she was a born the pandemic hit, Devin podded up with her parents and siblings in Houston. Clocking in remotely for her marketing job at Facebook meant almost all her waking hours were suddenly spent in a single spot. Devin soon felt stifled, and by September 2020, she was desperate for a break. One day, she got in her car and drove for hours, all the way to Big Bend National Park on the Texas-Mexico border. Standing among the colossal rock formations, she felt like she was finally able to breathe. This was joy; this was freedom. This, she realized, could be the blueprint for a totally different way of April 2021, Devin left her parents’ place again—and hasn’t stopped moving since. She has no permanent address. Her housing budget goes toward gas money and stopovers in places like New York, New Orleans, and Santa Fe. She still works remotely now for Bumble and relocates whenever she likes. Many friends envy her, which Devin doesn’t understand. “When they’re like, I wish I could do that,’ I always ask them, Why can’t you?’” she says, thinking of all the young people she knows with remote jobs and little to hold them in place. “Nothing is tying you to your home.”The Advertising Veteran Turned Musician Damaris Giha, 29, Brooklyn, New YorkIt was February 2020, and Damaris had a timeline In exactly one year, she would leave her ad agency job and focus on making music. She created a savings plan, tightened her spending, and tapped a financial adviser for guidance. In the meantime, she worked on her first single and a music not that she hated her day job. She had thrived off the energy in the office and was good at all the problem-solving her role required. Then the world turned upside down. Going remote was soul-sucking, and 8-hour workdays somehow stretched into 12-hour workdays. Damaris spoke up She was burning out. But what could be done? Her whole team was under stress of working from home made it harder to create music at home. But she decided to stay in her job to build up more of a savings cushion. In July 2021, she finally put in her notice. She was so tired. Tired of being tired and of being anxious and burned out. And she knew that before she could focus on her art, she’d have to restore her health. On the advice of her financial adviser, she signed up for Medicaid and SNAP benefits. She learned to let herself last fall, Damaris has been more musically productive than she was in the entire 18 months prior. And she has a plan to record and release her work. “I’m staying flexible and figuring out other ways to monetize my music,” Damaris says. “I am smart. I’m capable. I know now how to adapt.”The Chef Who Lost Her Culinary Ambitions—and Then Found Them AgainAimee Cevallos, 26, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina Aimee felt stuck working in her parents’ restaurant. She had attended Le Cordon Bleu culinary school; she’d held positions in fancy eateries in San Francisco and Austin. And yet, there she was in the spring of 2020, back in Myrtle Beach, trying to help keep the family business afloat with carry-out margaritas. Yes, a pandemic was happening. But she feared she was falling behind in and her husband—also a cooking pro—plotted together Maybe they could relocate to his home city of London and open a restaurant there, where public health care would relieve some of their financial strain. It could be the fresh start the couple it wasn’t. By the time they arrived in London in December 2020, the Alpha variant was surging. The restaurant industry was hit hard again. Everything seemed gray the London sky, the national mood, Aimee’s career prospects. In March 2021, she flew back to Myrtle Beach, alone, for a three-week felt different this time. The sunlight lifted her spirits. The roar of the ocean was a comfort. She dropped in for a few shifts at her parents’ restaurant and felt invigorated just to be cooking again, in the familiar hustle and bustle. When Aimee talked to her husband back in London, he said she sounded like herself for the first time all year. He also admitted his heart wasn’t in the marriage anymore. Aimee hung up and never went realized she didn’t need to move across an ocean to get unstuck—she needed to end a marriage that was no longer functioning. Today, living and working with her family, “I’m mentally in one of the best places I’ve ever been,” she says. She’ll return to chasing her culinary ambitions when the timing feels right “Everything’s gonna happen when it’s going to happen.”Photographs by Yael Malka Devin Spady and Damaris Giha, Juan Diego Reyes Jacqueline Campos, Joseph Ross Jade Van Kley, Gavin McIntyre Aimee Cevallos, Maddie McGarvey Alexis Nikole Nelson, Laurel Chor Lilit Marcus, and Arturo Olmos Jojo Trumbly.Hannah writes about health, sex, and relationships for Cosmopolitan, and you can follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Her work can also be found in the Cut, Jezebel, and Texas Monthly.

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