A conversation with Whitney Hess, on careers, whispers, and where to plant yourselfPhoto by Bob Bowie on UnsplashSome questions sound administrative but are not, and “why do you want to switch jobs?” turns out to be one of them. I asked it on a mentoring call in the way you would ask about notice periods or portfolio order, one practical item among several, and the designer on my screen began to cry. Neither of us expected it. We sat with it for a moment, the way you do when a video call suddenly contains something real, and when she tried to answer, the answer had very little to do with jobs.I brought this moment to Whitney Hess, who spent a decade as one of the most visible independent UX consultants of that era, based in New York for much of it with clients around the world, before consciously shifting her business from consulting to coaching, and who has therefore listened to more...