03 Dec 08 Midlife Career Change
Is it possible to wake up some day at 40 and think that you want to do something completely different? Is that just a day dream, to be thought about on the drive home from work, but nothing more than a dream?
Well it can be a pipe dream, or it can become reality. The choice really is yours. Many people find that once they have hit mid life, they know what they want from life and they aren’t going to compromise. Instead they want to make sure that they fulfil all their dreams and if that means suddenly throwing everything in to become something very different, then so be it.
But (and here is the cautionary note) make sure that your dream is all that you want it to be! If, for example, you dream of being a gardener or landscape architect then instead of jacking in your job, re-training and then finding out that you actually hate it, try to get some work experience first. You can either do this on a voluntary basis, working with a company just to see if you like it, or sign up with a recruitment agency, so that you can test it out and get paid for it at the same time!
Remember that life is short and one thing that we all have in common is that we all have only one shot at life, so you need to make sure that you don’t regret things you haven’t tried. Even if you try things and they don’t work out, you chased your dream and that counts for a lot. But chasing your dream usually means that it does work out, since you have so much vested interest in creating success. So mid life career changes can be the best thing that happened to many people: go for it!
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