From Dorset, England, comes a good article on career change. Read it here. The journalist interviewed a handful of mid-life career changers and tells their stories. The key to these career changes is serendipity, a willingness to make leaps and freedom from a commitment to “keep moving up.”
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Mid-Life Career Change Obstacle #3: Hitting A Wall
Mid-life career change can be stalled when you feel like you’re up against a brick wall – something so solid and big you can’t imagine going over, under, around or through it. It’s blocking you from your next career change or job search. Signs of a career change wall include feeling trapped and feeling you’ve […]
Graphic: Use Social Media To Improve Your Job Search
Use Social Media To Improve Your Job Search is an infographic that was produced by Gumtree
Video #2 – How Career Change Stalls – Your Current Job
Career change can e stalled by your own job. Your job might be too time-consuming so you don’t have time for career change. You might be too tired after work so you put your career change on hold. We talk about these issues here in this video – #2 in a series of career change […]
Mid-Life Career Change – From Lawyer to Sandwich Maker
Career change starts with motivation. Dov Abramovsky was a successful lawyer in upstate New York. There was just one thing – he weighed 380 pounds. Yikes. He wasn’t comfortable. He squeezed into airplane seats, where fellow passengers glared at him. He pretended his clothes shrunk in the dryer as he kept getting larger. What triggered […]
How to find your career: it’s a dance, not a dating site!
When you’re checking out career change books, programs or coaches, a lot of times you’ll come across this promise: “The FIRST thing you need to do is figure out EXACTLY what you want to do. A lot of good people get stuck here. Because it’s not just the way things happen. It’s like saying, “I […]