Chiara Brazzale
After a year that normalised uncertainty and disruption, opportunities now lie in the ashes of a global pandemic. Over 500,000 people were made redundant in 2020, according to official UK government figures published in December. For many this is the moment to question everything, career choices especially, and follow a new path. Beyond the grief and the shock of losing a job, there is a chance for reinvention.
I was made redundant in 2017. It wasn’t the best moment of my life, but it created space to ask myself “what am I doing?” and “what do I really want?”. The need to earn money meant that I took one step into freelancing, but for the first time, my goal of creating a business became a work in progress.