Risk Appetite

For a little context: I'm currently weighing up a job move. It may well prove to be the most significant move of my career and, with it, I'm under a barrage of all sorts of emotion - excitement, anxiety, fear...

It led me to wondering what some of the biggest risks other WSO'ers have taken in their career. What were they? Did they pay out? Any pearls of wisdom for the less blooded?

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