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If you’ve been suffering through an unsatisfying job or career, you may be eager to get on with the rest of your life. That was certainly the case for one woman who visited Phyllis Stein, the career counselor. “She’d been a solo veterinarian for fourteen years,” recalls Stein, “and she was on call seven days a week for those fourteen years. I literally had never met anyone in my life who had worked like that, not even doctors and lawyers.” The woman was miserable; when Stein asked about her career aspirations, her first words were, “I don’t ever want to see another animal again.” She wanted to start planning her next move, but Stein insisted she wait: “I said, ‘I don’t think you should even try to figure out what you’re going to do next. You should go away for nine months of vacation, to make up for the vacations you didn’t have in fourteen years, and you can come back next September.’ She was in a burned-out condition where creative thinking just wasn’t possible.”

Sure enough, when the woman returned the following year, she was simultaneously more relaxed and more focused. “She very quickly found a new direction for herself that was incredibly creative,” says Stein, becoming an international public health veterinarian, which allowed her to travel the world helping animals.