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Quitting a high-status job at Microsoft for freedom

Rita Piçarra decided to resign as a corporate CFO to prioritise her happiness, but how does one embrace this new reality? Read her full story.

Confucius once wrote, “We have two lives; the second begins when we realise, we only have one.” For a great part of my life, I couldn’t really grasp what this quote, written so many centuries ago, in a time when no one could even fathom the concept of a CFO, even meant. I knew that if I left the corporate world, I still had the means to sustain myself and the people I love most, to maintain my lifestyle and, most importantly, I could finally take control of my time. Throughout her life, my child always knew it was important to have a job that would bring you happiness but also a good salary, to look at money not as something you should be afraid of, but to talk about it and manage it correctly.

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