Your Gmail can be used over and over again, with no one the wiser.
You can append to your existing e-mail address in various ways, and this could be pretty useful for seeing who leaked your e-mail address to spammers. For example, for your bank, give them the address myaddress+banking@gamil.com. Then, if spammers send to that address, you can quickly see where they got the e-mail address from!
I’ve tested it with Proton Mail, and it works in exactly the same way.
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Now you can tell us who you worked for, so we can be sure to avoid them…
I’d rather not dox myself. They’re not a huge company. I promise you that this is not something uncommon.