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# I was a "good girl". Then I quit with no plan.
- URL: https://filter.thelucydavies.com/leaving-corporate-start-business/
- Published: 2026-09-29T14:20:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-14T22:20:33.000Z
- Description: Promotions, a director role and a toxic culture, until my body made the decision for me. How a rule follower became a rule breaker.
- Author: Lucy Davies
- Tags: Things I wish I knew

This is the story of how someone who followed every rule ended up writing her own.

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If it sounds familiar, I wrote about the other side of it in [my child and my client teamed up against me (and they were right)](https://filter.thelucydavies.com/my-child-and-my-client-teamed-up-against-me-and-they-were-right/), which is what happens when the person being asked to fit in isn’t me.