How to turn a life-changing 'workquake' into an opportunity to benefit your career

A seismic shift in your work life or an event that prompts you to rethink your professional life can benefit your career in the long term 

Lucy Gernon, career coach

Lucy Gernon upended her entire career in 2020. Having spent 20 years working as a microbiologist in the pharmaceutical industry, living through a global pandemic made the now 42-year-old from Carlow re-evaluate what she was doing with her life.

“I’d spent two decades succeeding in playing the corporate game, but it was a different story behind the scenes,” she says.