Previous work becoming impossible when priorities and motivations shifted
Between one in fifteen and one in six accounts describe significant professional disruption: leaving careers, losing income, being unable to work. Priorities and motivations shift in ways that make previous work feel impossible, meaningless, or incompatible with who one has become.
This is frequently described not as a crisis but as an inability: the person simply could not continue doing what they had been doing, even when the financial consequences were serious.
I lost my home, I lost my money, I became penniless, I became quite destitute, I lost my long-term relationship, obviously I lost my career and my focus, and I became literally a nobody.
You know, you may have a job, you may have quite a number of things.
And when I left my job, I sold my house in Boston, where houses are more expensive in Boston than they are in North Carolina, so I was able to take the equity out of that house.
I mean, after you kind of eventually got your wheels turning again and quit your job and sold your house and all this stuff.