Moving away from strategic comms industry

Advice

I have worked for a large strategic communications consultancy in London for about 3 years now following graduation from a top UK university.

While I really enjoyed it at first given the exposure and interesting things you are able to work on, I have since become disillusioned. The work life balance is horrific with the expectation that you work into the evening and on weekends very often. Not to mention, the salary does not accurately reflect the amount of work required of you and just the general stress of potentially missing something or not being on top of things given the fast paced environment.

I am great at my job and consistently get good feedback. But I am really not interested in this being my career my entire life. Does anyone have any advice on how to pivot out of this industry?

I worked across mostly financial and corporate communications, in basically every sector. I also did a lot of M&A work.

Any advice would be appreciated!

Posted Apr 15, 2025, 7:30 PM UTC

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