"You seem to have reduced all your past experience to zero" - is what I have been told when transitioning from one career to another.I think we tend to do that a lot when in transition - we might close a chapter and we open a new one, and that closure feels like an end. And the new chapter feels like we start from scratch.But I believe it is a distortion of reality and we need someone to point it out for us. We do not leave wisdom, experience, knowledge behind - we build upon it. Change of careers or countries, motherhood, menopause, career breaks where we do something else - these are not NOTHING.No matter what the world might think, at least we should not do this to ourselves first. Do not reduce past experience to zero, is my story, my learning and my message to anyone needing to read this today 💝

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