Affairs to Bear in Mind when You Need to Switch Your Job
If you are thinking about changing your paid position, you may be responsive to quite a few frighteners that people will attempt to place on you. To be honest, a lot of what is spoken about career strategies is a load of rubbish.
I’ve created a set of advice posts on these blogs to explain what is really going on with the whole issue of vocational alterations. Hopefully by using this post and other articles that I have written for you, you will find yourself better prepared and able to tackle your next interview more strategically.What follows here is a series of career myths that are doing the rounds and which you need to take a balanced view on.
- Career Myth: Always have a back-up plan
Sometimes having a back-up plan is the smart and prudent course of action. Back-up plans are so grown-up and responsible. But what happens when you’re standing with one foot in and one foot out? In my experience, we usually close the door and retreat. We are reluctant to commit to ourselves, and we end up denying ourselves the satisfaction of playing full-out, getting dirty and sweaty.
Back-up plans diffuse our energy. Diffused energy equals diffused results. Give all that you’ve got to your dream/passion/risk and you’ve got a better chance of being successful.
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Career Myth: Changing careers is risky
What’s riskier than leaving what you know to pursue the unknown? Changing careers means leaving behind a piece of your identity - your “I’m a lawyer” response to the “what-do-you-do?” question. It might mean admitting to yourself that you made a mistake with an initial career choice. Or it might mean acknowledging that you’re unsure of what’s next. And smart people always know what’s next, right?
Nope. Successful career changers often don’t have a plan. In Working Identity: How Successful Career Changers Turn Fantasy into Reality by Herminia Ibarra, she provided evidence that waiting until you have a plan is actually riskier than just doing and experimenting.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, is riskier than not changing careers if you’re longing to do so. Here’s why: The longing won’t go away. It will always be there, under the surface, waiting for you to do something about it.
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