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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
