Every so often someone posts a note to a forum: “I just quit my job today! I am confident I can replace my income quickly.” Inevitably, coaches and business owners jump in and cheer. Often these new business owners find they do really well. They quickly find a market and make money. But at other […]
REAL Career Change: A 40-Year-Old Cheerleader
Don’t you love it when people defy stereotypes of aging? I just read, It’s Not About The Pom Poms – how a 40-year old mom of 2 became the oldest NFL cheerleader. You can get it here on Amazon. Laura Vikmanis came from a difficult childhood and an 18-year abusive marriage. She had always loved […]
Center Stage: A Career Change Fable for Our Time
This movie illustrates one of the critical steps in any transition: listening to your environment and responding to your strengths and desires — even if everyone around you thinks you’ve lost your mind. I won’t claim that Center Stage is a great movie (the reviews were mixed), but I enjoyed the behind-the-scenes realism and the […]
Best jobs for career changes? No … worst advice.
Recently I came across an article on a site that looked extremely reputable. The site promised to include tips for midlife career change, but in fact the article is misleading and even dangerous. First, I don’t recommend following any guidance for “best job” or “hot jobs.” By the time you read about them, they won’t […]
Career Change: The Wrong Kind of Waiting
Clockwatchers is about living your life on someone else’s time. Four temporary office workers meet in a featureless building. We meet the heroine, Iris, as she spends much of her first day sitting in a chair where she was told to “wait till someone comes for you.” The building, with its square corners and cubicles, […]
Some good career tips …
Some good career tips from Business Insider. Start with the 11 things never to put on a resume: http://read.bi/HxnTTR My career guide includes many of these tips – so if you start here you are ahead of the game: https://midlifecareerstrategy.com/searchbk.html