It could be over a few months, like a new job where one day you feel like actually going to work thinking, hey I actually like these people and don’t mind working here.
Or when your friends have been super busy for months and suddenly you get matched on dating apps, old friends reach out and people want to buy your old junk on Craigslist in a single day.
Yep. At 18 I was hard set on going to college for game design. About a week into classes, I just up and decided “wait, this isn’t the right thing right now”, dropped out and continued my day job for 3 years before going to another college for software development. It wasn’t really the plan, but thinking about it now, it was a good move to switch from game design to more generally software.
A couple months before graduating, I landed a solid job on the other side of the country (US), finally moved out on my own and grew my career. Now I’m in the same field but making six figures, married, own a house, and fun hobby cars.