That’s not to say being domino-ed is necessarily a bad thing – for some it’s ignited the change they’d been putting off, too scared to rock the boat. “Watching people make dramatic moves can cause us to be open to thinking about things that we haven’t given ourselves permission to before,” Sheridan says.

For Brown, who is currently finding her feet in the world of freelancing – a place where she has the potential to make more money and better manage her workload – this is certainly true. “The pandemic taught me that life is too short,” she says. “And that you have to have the courage to take risks sometimes.” And maybe a little courage is all that was stopping us from changing our lives pre-pandemic, anyway.

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