Sue, a fifty-year-old vice president of sales, worked for a company that sold discounted member services to employer groups. She had a sales team, a title, and a paycheck. What she didn’t have was a company she could look in the mirror and feel good about.

When management told her they were cutting costs by withholding earned vacation pay from her staff and keeping that detail from the employees, Sue reached her limit. This wasn’t the first time the company asked her to be complicit in something that crossed an ethical line. But it would be the last.

She resigned without a new job lined up or savings to cushion the fall. She was a single mother with a teenage son living at home, and she felt a calling to become a nurse. She made the exhilarating decision to go back to school at the age of fifty!

Without allowing herself to panic, Sue got creative and proposed to her father that he give her early access to her inheritance money. Her father said yes. Her creative and brave move to leaving her job and requesting an inheritance fared well.

Throughout the transformation of leaving a job and starting nursing school, Sue understood that fear was always present. But it was never a reason to turn away from what she believed was her calling.

She graduated at the top of her nursing class and went on to earn a high six-figure income as senior vice president of nursing for a national hospice company.

Sue’s Advice

• Fear is sometimes the price of doing something that matters.
• Strained finances do not have to impede your vision. The finances were not in Sue’sfavor for going back to school, but she persevered and eventually positioned herself to earn a six-figure salary for work that deeply resonated with her desire to become a hospice nurse.
• Asking for help is a strategy. Sue’s willingness to go to her father, to be honest about what she needed and why, gave her the lifeline to support herself and her son while she reinvented her life. That took courage.
• Getting pushed out, or pushing yourself out, can lead to becoming the person you were always meant to be.
• “I just knew it would work out. I didn’t know how. I didn’t know when. But I knew. And that knowing was enough to keep going, one semester and one act of faith at a time.”

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