Going back to work
Divorce adjacent-ish but hoping to find someone with a similar experience on going back to work after a nasty divorce process? I left a “big” career job due to things happening inside my deteriorating marriage and the following divorce.
I’m starting to put myself back out there but I’m worried about how much I should or need to explain about why I left my last job/s.
To summarize a bit, I did two years at a company and got a promotion and was even recognized by the CEO directly for the work I did but due to the things happening inside my home at that time I took FMLA, and ended up taking on a totally remote and higher paying role because I needed to. THAT position ended up being impossible to learn and do while getting a divorce and being a single parent so I quit. Not good-I’m aware but I was trying to swim in a sink or swim situation and clearly, I sank.
I’ve been doing part time jobs since, and am now trying to figure out how I move forward into a career again and, well even I can see how I probably look to hiring managers.
I’m an outsider in a small community too, so it’s not like my name carries any weight or I can hope for someone to refer me directly.
TIA