Bridge Role
A bridge role is a position in your target field that explicitly values the expertise you built in your old one, letting you change careers without resetting salary or seniority. It is the safest entry mechanism in a career change: you are paid for what you know while you grow into what you don't.
Classic examples: a controller becoming a finance business partner for engineering teams, a teacher moving into corporate learning and development, a journalist entering content strategy. In each case the new employer buys proven skills, and the career changer buys time to build domain knowledge.
Finding your bridge starts with a transferable-skills inventory: list what makes you senior, mark what is portable, then search for roles in the new field where exactly those strengths are scarce.
Thinking about changing direction?
Reading the definition tells you what the move is called. It does not tell you what it cost the person who made it. On Nawaya you talk to someone who changed field themselves, for 30 minutes, one to one, and the first conversation is free.
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