Ready for a career change? If you’ve been miserable in your current job, and the one before, and maybe the one before that, a light bulb might be going off. Maybe it’s not the job. Maybe you need a whole new career. And then … you stall. Here are 3 reasons you get side-tracked, detoure […]
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Career Change: Knowing when (and how) to walk away
Two years ago Nancy Lowell began a new career as a business coach. The move made sense given her background. She had been a manager with whole Foods and had a successful corporate track record. She was energetic and motivated. Nancy soon became frustrated with her coaching business. She had invested in a franchise, which […]
Midlife Career Quote: Is it a “fear” or a “no?”
Today’s New York Times magazine included an interesting article on an extreme danger sport – base jumping. People wear special flight suits as they leap off a cliff, experiencing flight sensations for several minutes. You can read the article here. Be warned: it’s not the cheeriest article in the world. One small part of the […]
New job search tool: Add Slide Share To Your LinkedIn Profile
These days you almost always need a LinkedIn profile for a job search. But if you’d really like to come across as different as well as professional, check out this newer social medium: Slide Share. SlideShare will surprise you. It sounds pretty simple: you get to upload and share visual files. Use Powerpoint, PDF, Word […]
Ready for a Career Change? 5 signs
I’ve just been reading a good book: The Myths of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky. I usually don’t like books about happiness because the measurement strikes me as odd: self-ratings of happiness don’t seem very robust. But this book was different. Like many other psychologists, Lyubomirsky points out that it’s human nature to adapt. We think […]
What is a career crisis?
We all have different definitions of a crisis. I know people who think a hangnail is a major crisis. One US White House social secretary told the press they were having a “tablecloth crisis.” I would define a crisis as an event that creates a “before” and an “after.” After the crisis happens, nothing will […]