Yes I quit my job ... and am now training to be a teacher. You'd think that was impossible, because I'd got to the stage of not being able to string a sentence together at work, was in a blind panic all the time, had no resilience whatsoever (if not at work, I was asleep), and no lust for life at all. Felt as if I was just waiting to die, in that office, surrounded by those people.
Point being, yes, the menopause was wiping me out, but so was the job, it was the two combined. I was never just the menopause. There was other stuff around me. Lockdown and mainly working from home gave me the time I needed to reflect on who I was and what I wanted to do, and from there I explored my options, and rapidly came to understand that I had so much to offer. I ended up in a positive reinforcement loop. For me, and I know this isn't true for everyone, 'A change (pun intended) was as good as a rest.'
