I moved abroad for my husband’s job. It made me question who I was without my career.

• Chatrine Siswoyo, now 40, has built a career across companies including Philips, Uber, Netflix, and ByteDance.
• Ten years ago, she left her dream job at Twitter to relocate to Hong Kong for her husband’s role.
• Starting anew without a job forced her to confront who she was beyond her career.

In the end, it wasn’t the pause itself that changed me; it was everything around it. Letting go of what I thought was my dream role at Twitter, then arriving somewhere new where no one knew who I was, forced a kind of reset I hadn’t expected.