I left you on a cliff hanger - my Project Manager role redundancy giving me the nudge I needed to go all in on a proper career pivot.
I kicked things off with 3-week business development fellowship (aka sales bootcamp for $2,189 - 50% up front, 50% when you landed a job). I did not love the idea of sales (especially cold calling) BUT I knew that sales were a great way into tech without previous experience. AND the best part of the program was they helped you get a role afterwards (and if you didn't land one you got a refund!!). I interviewed for a bunch of roles and landed an offer with a med tech company 🥳
The week before I was due to start, they rescinded the offer. Their product roadmap changed and they had nothing for me to sell, so the position evaporated. Obviously the universe agreed sales wasn't for me.
I didn't have a great handle on how else to articulate my transferable skills OR what other roles even existed. Startmate Womens Fellowship applications had just closed but I emailed to explain my situation, and asked if I could still apply, I got in AND a scholarship (zero fee). It was 6 weeks that helped me understand tech and startups, AND afterwards I actually landed a role at Startmate running 2 of their other fellowships programs ($80K salary + ESOP + carry in fund + super).
Right as I started the new job I also got into The Community Collective's cohort program (basically how to be Community Manager - I paid $600 for this on a 50% scholarship in 2023).
Unfortunately, about four months in to the Startmate role, they decided the programs they hired me for wouldn't run next year and I was let go. It was deja vu - jobless right before Christmas. FML
At that point it started to feel like maybe a Physio was all I could be.
This was the first time I felt the power of the network I had started to build when a company I'd interviewed with as part of the sales bootcamp heard I was available and reached out with an even better fitting role than what they'd originally been offering. Account manager - $126K OTE + super I took it. I still wasn't excited about selling but in that role I never felt like a sales person and somehow cleared an $11k bonus in one quarter!!
It wasn't super challenging and the commuting twice a week (3hr return) was cooked. So after 6 months I started looking again and while I was working out where to go next applied for a Level 1/2 physio job locally - which I got, I was disappointed to be going back but also slightly relieved 😅.
While I was waiting for them to sort the contract Techstars posted an ops associate role for their accelerator. The money was terrible - $70k - I was in my late 30s and about to earn the least I had professionally since graduating. But the brand was global and the Managing Director was a really well respected in the ecosystem and I had a good feeling - if I did well there my next gig would be epic.
That bet is what got me the next role - Community & Partnerships Specialist $122,500 (+ ESOP + super). A company that genuinely nailed work/life balance and a role I got to use every skill I'd picked up along the way, while learning a tonne more.
The path from $103K in ED to $122.5K in tech was a real rollercoaster. But one I don't regret for even a second. Life for me is far better now than it ever was in health.
It's also only one story and there are loads more - the whole point of Post-MDT is share them. So if you've pivoted from clinical into something nobody would have predicted, hit reply on the newsletter and tell me all about it 🙏
Next: a career pivot from a legend who's also gone from Physio in ED to being a Health Planner for a consultancy firm - he has so many good tips to share.
This first went out to Post-MDT subscribers on 28 June 2026. You can read the original edition in the archive, or get the next one in your inbox.