Careershifters blog

Escape The City - an exciting online platform for young professionals who want to 'do something different’ and find meaningful & fulfilling occupations outside of the corporate mainstream.

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This week I have five different videos for you to get you through the week. Enjoy.

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This week I’ll be sharing inspiring articles with you to help you on your way to career change, rather than examples of other peoples changes.  I hope they will help you see things differently, think about careers and choices differently, and get you feeling revved up to get the career and life you really want.

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I've just created a three page article about the hows and whys of procrastinating when making a decision. I don't know about you guys but during my career change process I've dragged decisions out - never getting past the analysis and doubts. I hope this article in some small way helps you see decisions in a different way and make the decision-making process a happier one.

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Can you remember the feeling of being utterly absorbed with something that’s almost non-existent in your life now? Do you want to reconnect with that? This week during my research I kept coming across people who have recovered interests they thought were lost to history.

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So how is your career change doing? I think that if you’ve felt the ‘call’ and longing to break out and find a career that’s right for you, you have to roll with it - it‘s the nag that won‘t go ‘til you‘ve resolved it!

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Hope you had a great Bank Holiday weekend! Whether DIYing, taking the kids to the park, or having huge lie-ins, hope you also got some inspiration for your ideal career. I had a picnic with some friends, one of whom is a hugely happy and successful physiotherapist - there definitely are people out there having great careers. You should be one of them, too!

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This year, for the first time, Garden Design School is offering FREE Taster Days in June 2010 for people who love gardens, are looking for a new challenge and think that a career in garden design could be for them.

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Anyone else watch the London Marathon at the weekend? What a shot of inspiration! I’m always in awe of the older runners, this year the oldest man and woman to finish were 86 and 83 years old respectively. Definitely an alternative option to golf, fishing and gardening if you’re planning your retirement.

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This week I’ve been thinking about forced change - I talk about how sometimes even if we want to make a change, we can procrastinate and it can take an externally-forced change to finally set us in motion. And I have some new career change article links for you.

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