Human beings have an aversion to the uncertainty. Remember the saying: the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t? Or what about, we’d rather be unhappy than uncertain?
It makes sense, really, when you think that our primitive brain is concerned with survival and so the unknown is equated with being unsafe. But [...]
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A Rope, A Steel Door and Mid-level Career Change
Posted in Career Thoughts on February 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Chickens, Eagles, and Mid-level Career Change
Posted in Career Thoughts on February 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Here’s a nifty little fable from Karen Salmansohn’s book The 30 Day Plan to Whip Your Career Into Submission:
Which Came First: The Eagle or the Egg?
A little boy was wandering in the forest and came upon an eagle’s nest. He plucked an egg, brought it back to his farm, and, giggling to himself, slid it [...]
Is It Time for a Career Change?
Posted in Career Thoughts, tagged career, career change, career change quiz, changing careers on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Are you displaying classic career change symptoms? Take this quiz from The Career Change Resume by Karen Issacs and Karen Hofferber to find out. (Answer true or false)
1. Faced with the choice between going to work and submitting to a triple root canal, you’d be hardpressed to pick the least painful option.
2. You pride yourself [...]
It’s All Good
Posted in Career Thoughts on March 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On Tuesday, I got the news that I had been rejected for a job opportunity I had interviewd for. Yep, that means I interviewed several times for jobs at 4 different companies and didn’t get a single job offer. Zero. Zip. Nada. If I was a baseball player, I’d have a horrendous batting average.
So, after [...]
Seven Keys for Finding a New Career
Posted in Career Thoughts on January 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In Nicholas Lore’s book The Pathfinder, he lists seven keys to creating a new future for yourself:
1. Create your future from the present, not the past.
…Make a promise to yourself that you will determine your future as free as possible from the domination of your past. It take a commitment to make you own choices [...]
The Creative Quest
Posted in Career Thoughts on January 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You give birth to that on which you fix your mind.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When our imaginations are not creatively engaged, they don’t sit idly by; they busy themselves conjuring up fearful futures or escapist fantasies. People wonder why they are so “uncreative,” why it is that their own souls are not possessed with the fire of [...]
The Courage to Find Your Right Livelihood
Posted in Career Thoughts on January 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It takes a great deal of imagination and resourcefulness to find your own way in a world determined to stamp you with a cookie cutter. Colin Wilson put it like this: “Modern civilization with its mechanized rigidity is producing more outsiders than ever before — people who are too intelligent to do some repetitive job [...]
It’s Never Too Late to Change Careers
Posted in Career Thoughts, Inspiration on November 15, 2006 | 4 Comments »
(Or, You’re Never Too Old to Follow Your Dreams, part 2. )
If you’re in a career that bores you and feel like you’re too old for a career switch, consider the following taken from Changing Careers for Dummies by Carol L. McClelland:
Age 52: Ray Kroc began franchising McDonald’s restaurants.
Age 71: Coco Chanel designed the suit [...]
What Makes You Come Alive?
Posted in Career Thoughts on October 18, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
-Harold Whitman
I find this quote very inspiring, yet difficult to apply in principal. For a renaissance soul, it’s learning that makes you come alive and therefore so [...]
