After what was a traumatic 2020 for most people, this year has led some to re-evaluate priorities and seek new opportunities.
Here we tell the stories of suburbanites who made big changes in 2021.
Jennifer Goebel had a good life before the COVID-19 pandemic.
She loved her job in marketing for luxury hotels and properties. She also loved her home in Fox Lake, where she fostered dogs and had backyard chickens. She was close to family.
Then came being furloughed in April 2020 and laid off in October 2020 due to the pandemic.
“I did a lot of soul searching that summer and sat by my pool in my backyard oasis I created in Fox Lake, and just figured out what I want to do with my life, what is important to me, how this pandemic made me think beyond my cushy lifestyle and how I would catapult into change and take the back half of my life and do something meaningful,” said Goebel, 35.
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