Workplace Wellbeing: How to know it is time to quit your job

Olive Leavy left a successful career in London to return home and become a forester.  We ask experts about when and how to quit your job 

Olive Leavy, forester, with her springer spaniel Archie. Photograph Moya Nolan

THE year 2016 was pivotal in Olive Leavy’s life. From Kinnegad in Westmeath, she was living in London and working as the chief editor of a prestigious science publishing journal.

“It was a dream job, really well paid and with opportunities to travel to places like Japan, China and Brazil several times a year,” says Leavy. “I’d just been promoted but was feeling unsettled. I loved London at the start. It’s the best place in the world when you’re young and have money and energy. But over time, I realised I had no roots in the city. Even though I had great friends, I felt untethered and unconnected.”