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Escaping the 9-to-5: Quitting an 18-Year Corporate Career to Travel the World | Jessica Roman
What happens when you do everything right for 18 years, buy the house, raise the kids, and realize the "American Dream" is just a blueprint for burnout?
In this episode of Whereabouts Tales,I'm sitting down with Jessica Roman, a former corporate IT manager who decided she was done waiting for retirement. At 47, Jessica quit her nearly two-decade career, sold her house in six days, gave away her possessions, and bought a one-way ticket to India. This conversation deconstructs the reality of solo female travel in your 40s, the mental shift required to stop "keeping up with the Joneses," and why…
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