ROSS GIBLIN/STUFF Wellington artist Heidi Nobel is one of the few with first-hand experience of the Self Employment Start-Up scheme and believes demand will increase in the wake of Covid-19. The afternoon I decided to take voluntary redundancy, I was strangely calm. Redundancy was never part of the plan. The career trajectory I’d envisioned ever since I decided to become a journalist didn’t include stepping off the ladder into the unknown, especially during a pandemic. Yet, various circumstances led me to email HR and take their bait. It wasn’t until a week after my end date, the honeymoon stage long past, that it hit me: who am I without my career?