19/11/2025
Recently, I found myself retrenched, along with a team I adored and a company I spent six years helping build and shape from the inside out. I had poured so much of myself into challenging distribution in the financial services industry and creating something meaningful.
It was sudden, it was sad, and a reminder of how quickly companies, even the great ones, can change.
And so, I entered the modern job market, a savage and highly competitive landscape, with unemployment at record highs.
Recruiters slide into your LinkedIn DMs, but roles vanish just as fast. Every application asks you to reload your CV, fill forms, take assessments, and maybe get a first conversation.
Then there is the salary expectation tango, a complicated and awkward two-step. You’re asked what you earn, which shouldn’t matter, and what you expect, which could lowball or price you out before anyone understands your value. One misstep and the door shuts. All this after interviews—a total waste of time.
After more than a month of this, I quickly realised something important: this is not how I am going to find the right opportunity.
So I shifted. Hard.
I stopped hiding behind my laptop, refreshing job boards and started having real conversations with my network, the people who know my character, my work, and my energy. I showed up positively. I said thank you when people sympathised, but added, “I’m genuinely excited about what’s next.” And I meant it.
People kept telling me everything happens for a reason. It is a cliché, it is overused, and it honestly feels like a verbal pat on the head, but clichés are clichés because they hold some truth.
Your network matters. Use it. Build it. Nourish it. Opportunities appear in unexpected ways, and even if nothing happens immediately, you walk away knowing someone a little better, which is still a win.
My husband has always been brilliant at this. (Almost too brilliant, he wants to get involved in everything. But he’s learning that fewer, deeper commitments lead to mastery.) He reminded me to get out of the online chaos and go back to people. “Talk. Connect. Put yourself in the room,” he said.
So I did.
Conversations led to opportunities far beyond what applications gave me.
And that is where SalesHuis Enablement came in. Not as a dramatic revelation or a perfect business plan, but as something I’ve always wanted to try and finally had the courage to explore. It may work. It may work a little. It may not work at all. I may get another opportunity tomorrow that feels right and choose that instead. Who knows.
But at least I am doing it. At least I am building it. At least I am giving myself the chance to see what it could become.
Something I’ve been waiting to try, a space to put my energy.
And mostly a new willingness to back myself, even when the outcome is not guaranteed.
To anyone navigating the chaos of the current market: I see you. It’s not easy. It’s not linear. But there is something powerful on the other side when you stay open, connected, and unapologetically positive.
Everything really does happen for a reason, even when the reason only reveals itself afterwards.
