{"id":584598,"date":"2026-04-04T08:16:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584598\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:16:53","slug":"jumping-off-the-career-ladder-to-be-an-entrepreneur-is-the-best-decision-ive-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/584598\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumping off the career ladder to be an entrepreneur is the best decision I\u2019ve made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">In December 2020, I attended a management meeting on Zoom. At the time, I was the principal counsellor and head of the counselling department at a local non-profit organisation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">I had entered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/singapore\/greater-support-to-grow-and-equip-singapores-social-service-workforce-to-meet-more-complex-needs?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\">social service sector<\/a> in 2009 hoping to work directly with clients and make a difference in their lives. But as I climbed the career ladder, I found myself doing less of that and more administrative and management work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In December 2020, I attended a management meeting on Zoom. At the time, I was the principal counsellor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,63,99,198],"class_list":{"0":"post-584598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-entrepreneurship"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}