After a year spent hunched over their laptops and enduring back-to-back online meetings since the outbreak of pandemic, something strange is happening to many of the exhausted salaried class. They flip the carefully arranged chessboards of their lives and decide to risk it all. They are emboldened by rising vaccination rates and a recovering job market. Their bank accounts, fattened by a year of stay-at-home savings and soaring asset prices, have increased their risk appetites. While some of them are just changing jobs, others are stepping off the career treadmill altogether.