Career Inpiration: Career change or life renovation?

By Sab

I’ve been thinking about dream career changes – and actually, a lot of the time when I let my mind wander to what could be, it becomes more than just the job itself.  Often a ‘career change’ can be more like a life change – it can mean relocating, working in a different way (eg freelance rather than employed by a company), focusing more on friends/family/hobbies, and creating a different way of living your life. Not only can the job itself be an important part of the change, but how about how you get to work? For your dream job do you just walk down the road? Or do you work from home? To have no more long hours of commuting on tubes and crowded suburban trains is a huge lifestyle change. Or, if you relocate to another place, your commute could be windsurfing to work (oh yes, there is a guy in Brighton who does this!)

 

This is an article about a theatre critic who ditched his job and life in London to live a simpler life in rural France. Quote of the article? : "If there is a recipe for happiness, I think it’s to have a passion, make a contribution and keep learning. Out here, I’m learning to use my head less than I did in London – aspiring to be wise rather than clever"

www.telegraph.co.uk/property/propertyinfrance/cest-la-folie/7907153/Living-in-France-If-theres-a-recipe-for-happiness-I-think-its-to-have-a-passion.html


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