The $300,000 Trap: What It Really Costs to Stay in a Career That No Longer Fits (Identity Loss) | Executive Series Part 3

Happen To Your Career - Meaningful Work, Career Change, Career Design, & Job Search · Jun 5, 2026 · 18m

Most executives never run the math on what it really costs to stay in a career that no longer fits. They calculate what leaving would cost them, the income, the title, the security they've spent fifteen or twenty years building, but they almost never run the numbers on what staying is already taking from them.

In Part 3 of our Executive Career Change series, you'll see what the math actually looks like, including the four real costs of staying that compound year after year, the data on what really happens to income after a structured executive career change, and the three questions that…