What if you change jobs and regret it?

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The Great Resignation was a term that emerged from the pandemic to describe workers switching jobs for higher salaries and sign-on bonuses.

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Emma Jacobs

I met an undergraduate recently who was working alongside her studies. Not in a traditional student job, pulling pints or stacking shelves, but advising a marketing agency on youth trends.

“Is that what you want to do when you graduate,” I asked naively. “God no,” came the reply. “That’s not my passion.”

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