S2E75 | Why Changing Careers Feels Like Betraying Yourself

I find myself thinking often about the curious phenomenon of career change, this peculiar modern anxiety that seems to grip us when we consider abandoning one path for another. It strikes me as odd that we should feel such guilt about shifting our professional direction, as if our younger selves had signed some unbreakable contract with our future selves, binding us forever to decisions made with incomplete knowledge and untested assumptions about who we might become.