Need a CHAIR?

By stubby

Imagine that you are trying to change a lightbulb, but you don’t have a ladder. You work out quickly that if you stand on the table, you will be able to reach and change it. But getting onto the table isn’t quite as easy as it used to be when you were 21 and fit is it? So what do you do? Well it’s quite obvious, you use a chair to get you from the floor to the table, and the table to get to the lightbulb.

Changing your career is just like this.

We can’t take a big jump so easily when we have been working the same way for a long time. The stretch is scary and could make us fall over and create more problems. So sometimes we need something to help bridge the gap.

I think many people think about changing careers, and some of the main reasons they don’t are to do with the size of the gap, or the risks it carries with it.

“I can’t change careers because I have to keep paying my mortgage”

“Now isn’t the time to change, my wife is pregnant and we need the money”

Sound familiar? But what if you could find ways to put that chair between the floor and the table? What if you could spend a few months investigating other work, maybe doing some short courses, volunteering for other work experience? Once that’s done, doors might open up for part time work elsewhere, or freelance work doing something different. How would you feel if in 6 months time, only 90% of your income is from the career you want to jump out of, and 10% comes from somewhere else? Somewhere that could be your NEW career? It’s a step in the right direction, and once you take that step, there is often another right in front of you.

-Stubby

 

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