I mentioned career coach Joanne Dustin’s site, Career Lost and Found, in a previous post and today I’d like to review her book, “Life Beyond IT”. (Also available on Amazon.com)
Two important points:
First of all, this book is aimed directly at Information Technology professionals who are considering a career change, although the coaching themes running through [...]
After “beta” testing my “career change coaching by email” service I’ve decided to replace the email part with a secure and private 1-to-1 forum.
Why?
Two reasons:
1- “Lost Emails“:
All too often, legitimate Internet email gets “lost” due to ISP sp#m filtering. Since I want to reliably communicate with my paying clients (and vice versa), that level of [...]
Saturday 1 March, spring is in the air and I’m walking to my local train station.
Part of me thinks it’s a crying shame to be working on such a glorious day.
Yet there are benefits too:
- I can take a compensation day off during the week.
- No packed commuter trains at 11am Saturday
My “feeling [...]
OK, time for an update on my “invisible target” post.
Thanks to Geoff Roberston over at total self improvement for his vote. I’d dropped the ball on this and forgotten to close comments on 23 February.
Lucky I didn’t!
So the invisible target on my desk now has something to visualize around - and to keep taking [...]
Even though it was way back in 1980, I can still recall doing 105 press ups on the evening of the 10th October - my 20th birthday.
105 remains my personal best and the closest I’ve come since then is 80 - achieved last year after a few months of daily practice, working my way up [...]
One unnerving aspect to career change is leaving safe and familiar territory to take a calculated risk in some unexplored field.
Even with years of experience and transferable skills, it can be an exciting but often nerve racking ride - as you find yourself (temporarily) “knowingly incompetent” in new skills others have already mastered.
Rather than being [...]
Packed into this slowly moving carriage,
composed commuters cough politely.
While origami masters make light work of morning broadsheets,
And agile thumbs text cybersweet nothings.
What priceless dreams are squeezed lifeless from hanging straps?
Or cry silently down perspiring windows,
to lie exhausted in puddles of despair?
Yet amazingly, each morning all arrive safely at appointed destinations,
never thinking of the terminus that [...]
I love career coach Joanne Dustin’s tag line for her web site, Career Lost And Found :
“Open the door… your future is waiting.”
Joanne’s home page is a brief yet powerful example of what her coaching work is about and how she can help - and is also a great “elevator speech”, in my humble opinion.
I [...]
Career change expert, Pamela Skillings, has a few ideas for the former First Lady.
http://blog.escapefromcorporate.com/job-ideas-hillary-clinton/
Perhaps #3 would be an interesting team to pick up where Eliot Spitzer left off?
Happy April Fools
- Mark McClure
