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Career Changing: Live the Adventure
from: John GrothCareer Changing Challenges: The Road Ahead!
You’ve been working in a career for awhile. Every day when you go into work you are unhappy but you aren’t sure what kind of work you really want to do next. How do you get out of this apparent trap and get into a career that excites you and make you want to go into work every morning?
This is a difficult question to answer for anyone, but particularly vexing for people who have invested a lot of time and money and effort to get where there are. They would have a lot to lose and would have considerable risk in making a career change.
This dilemma can start to be solved by looking for clues in a straightforward review of your work history, and outside interests. Further you’ll want to make an honest assessment of what you want and what you do not want in a future career. A careful analysis of you natural abilities will also be productive.
Once you have completed the analysis you should have a reasonably good ideas of what industry or type of career you would be most comfortable with. Even though you may not know exactly what you want to do or how to get there, you can begin by listing career possibilities and then methodically investigate each job and career.
From you job list, put them is rough order of importance and appeared to be most interesting. Now put together a plan to investigate each career. Find individuals presently working in the prospective career and with preplanned questions, work at getting a short telephone or personal interview. If this is not possible write letters and politely ask two or three question relating to the career. You may find that what appeared initially promising will not fit your needs. Normally as ideas drop out other careers will appear interesting.
Don’t expect to find the ideal work situation, but keep looking until you find a set of tradeoffs that work for you. Once you find the career that would be a good fit, you next step will be to put together and action plan to make it happen.
If the new career requires additional education, factor that into the plan. What entry level jobs are available that leads to the kind of position that you eventually want? In your research you learned what employers look for in candidates for these jobs. As part of your action plan you will through self study, volunteer work, or part-time employment get experience and skills desired by the employers in the field that you are shooting for.
Changing career fields is a challenge, but if you seem trapped in an unsatisfying career and you are motivated to find work that is truly satisfying this road map will get you started.
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