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Three years of saying no to moving teams, one conversation in Chicago flipped me
I've been in the same accounts payable role at a logistics firm since 2021, always turned down internal transfer offers because I figured the devil I knew was better. Last week my old manager from the Columbus office called me out of the blue and talked about how her team does revenue forecasting now, not just data entry, and she showed me a quick sample report. I realized I wasn't scared of the work, I was scared of learning a new system at 41. Has anyone else hit a wall like that and taken the jump anyway, or did you regret leaving a comfortable spot?
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hernandez.brooke1mo ago
This is like when people stay in the same neighborhood for 30 years even though the area changed around them. At some point you're not choosing comfort, you're just letting fear make the call for you. The system stuff is always learnable, that part fades in a few weeks. The regret of wondering what could have been is the part that sticks around. Sounds like your old manager already did the hard part by showing you it's not as scary as your brain made it out to be.
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