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Career Pivot Decision

Decide whether to make a big career move — with clear eyes.

You walk away with

A stay / pivot recommendation with the real risks and the first step.

Decidi convenes

🧗 The Executive Coach 🔧 The Pragmatist ⚖️ The Risk Officer 💬 The Brutally Honest Friend 🌅 The Optimist

Recommended level: Deep — The newest, most capable models — for when being wrong is expensive.

What the council debates

Help me decide whether to make a major career change. Be honest, not just encouraging.

THE SITUATION:
[my current role/field, and the change I am considering]
WHY I WANT TO MOVE: [the real reasons — and be honest about whether it is toward something or away from something]
WHAT I AM GIVING UP: [income, security, status, momentum]
MY CONSTRAINTS: [finances, family, timing, skills gap]

Debate:
1. Am I running toward something real or away from a fixable problem.
2. The honest gap between where I am and where I want to be — skills, network, money.
3. The financial runway and the downside if it takes longer than hoped.
4. The reversibility — can I get back if it does not work.
5. The story I am telling myself, and whether fear or ego is driving it.
6. The lower-risk way to test the move before fully committing.

FINAL SYNTHESIS:
- A recommendation: STAY, PIVOT, or TEST-FIRST, with the decisive reasoning.
- The biggest risk and how to de-risk it.
- The single first step to take in the next two weeks.

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