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Philomena Tan knows all about this. By her early 30s, she was a successful and highly paid market research consultant for whom a typical day-which sometimes ended at 10 pm and consisted of "a lot of meetings and deadlines; We had to win so I was writing projects proposals, making presentations, supervising staff ".For a long while, she loved her job and there were perks, lots of travel, for instance, but it was never what she had planned to do with her life. Like so many others she just got caught up in a career that had started ".Tan had studied psychology and her fourth-year thesis was on attempted suicide. It was a turning point. There she was at 21 talking to people who had slashed their wrists or taken overdoses or other acts done unimaginable in her world. "I needed to get some life experience. I thought I'd get some work and then go back. Instead I got sidetracked for 15 years. "She was good with statistics and computers, and in the early 1980s these proved a rare and valuable combination of skills, so Tan was wooed by headhunters and made steady progress up the corporate ladder. But the gloss wore off and the crunch came the year she spent the entire week of her husband's birthday in Brisbane running market research groups while he was home alone in Melbourne.It made her really examine her life: Not just the missed dinners and loss of meaningful contact with friends but the purpose of her work. "I did a lot of food research and after a while it's like ' do we need another form of canned whatever? ' What am I really contributing to society? "Tan planned her escape carefully. She saved money and returned to study. A decade later it has all come together and she is happy. The research she did for a doctorate in psychology not only added to her qualifications as a psychologist and psychotherapist, but gave her the raw material for her first book, Leaving the Rat Race to Get a Life, a handbook for anyone seriously considering changing the pace of their lives.These days the Tan is in private practice in her local community, does yoga and chooses her own hours so that she rarely works more than four days a week and, because she sees clients in the evening, she keeps her afternoons free to catch up with the reading, meet with friends or research her next book. She is happy. "When you are working up to 70 hours a week you don't have time for this," she says.
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