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Victoria Lowen is something of a poster woman for the need to adjust careers fast and dramatically during the disruption of COVID-19.
As news of the virus began to ripple through the Australian travel and tourism industry in early 2020, she realised âthe writing was on the wallâ for her job security as a pilot.
For Victoria Lowen, pandemic career disruption meant going from flying for Qantas to being employed at quarantine hotels.
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By early March, Ms Lowen could see that being in one of the first sectors to be smashed by the pandemic meant she would need to put aside her dream career of flying Qantas passengers from Australia to Europe, the US and South America, at least temporarily.