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Many of us often feel like we disappoint our younger selves with our adult decisions. My child self might be shocked to learn that I am not on course to become the first female president of the United States; my teenage self would be horrified to learn that my makeup regimen no longer plays a starring role in my life and my twenties self would be appalled to learn that I left the career I spent that entire decade building.
In May 2020, I left behind my journalism career. At the age of 33, I decided it was time to start over. I liken that decision to the end of a bad break-up: everything that person (or in this case, job) does suddenly drives you crazy. Things that never bothered you before made you apoplectic with rage.
I knew I would need to return to education and find something that aligned with my new ambitions; something for which I would not see as ‘sacrificing’ my thirties but instead building bricks on the foundation of my career. So, in September 2020, I joined the full-time MBA programme at UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School and found that purpose being fulfilled.