FALLING DOWN

I loved my job. It’s not the easiest line of work to describe succinctly, but I managed a sales team in the area of brand protection, with ASX Top 100 companies as clients. It was my first foray into sales and it was high-pressure. But I found the need to hit targets exhilarating. Until everything went south.

It’s an old story. The company I worked for was bought by an American company, which set about maximising its investment. It was a process of pulling out weeds, you could say – and I was identified as a weed. But while they pulled me out, they didn’t discard me. Not immediately, anyway. What they did was move me