Describe a risk you took that you do not regret.

The risky decision I took in life, which I do not regret, is resigning a job. There was no other offer inline at that time.

I am a career oriented person which means I put my career first then the rest. Sometimes it is good to be career oriented. However, I was on the bad side of it. I will ignore my health or other priorities when it comes in front of work.

I took a software job with the expectation of learning new things. I also wanted a salary that could fill my pocket. But things turned out ugly in the first company. I was on the verge of a breakdown in my health and learning. The second jump was a desperate one where I searched randomly and had an offer, and decided to move ahead.

After 2 years in the second company, I was draining emotionally and mentally. Somehow I did not feel I got the right work or the money. To add fuel to it, the minimalist hike was given to me. Money was not everything to me. However, I had a feeling that I deserve more than this. I realized I am not a right fit here.

Did not take a back up or had interviews lined up, one morning I resigned. No overthinking, no drama just a sudden email to my manager. But that was only for that moment. Then the nervousness, fear and something being not right and what not. All the bad dreams or thoughts began. What if I remain unemployed? What if I have to move out of this place? There was a long list of what ifs.

3 months of this draining overthinking and the search during notice period. Still nothing in hand. I gave up and I felt this is the worst decision I have made.

1 week to the last day of the company, I cleared all rounds of an unknown company at those times. It might have been a desperate move but I decided to join and then never looked back.

That one risky decision turned out to be the best one where my entire career took a turn. I got the work I wanted, I got the pay that satisfied my mind. Obvious frustrations of IT jobs are still there and the politics around never fails to surprise me. But ignoring all these, I did take a huge leap of faith. I trusted myself when I made that decision.

If I think about it now, I cannot be that person again. Life sometimes is so unplanned, what we think and what we act are in two different directions.