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Career Change Multipotentialites

Keep Learning

In our modern society hardly any jobs will be for life anymore. It is very likely that you will have to change companies or even careers sooner or later. You might also have to work longer until retirement and update your skills continually to stay attractive to prospective employers. So make life-long learning a habit now.

 

For the multipotentialites amongst you this is the easy part as you very probably love learning and trying new things. You also thrive on change because it gives you the variety you crave.

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Changing Careers

Career change is a process of trial and error and experimenting. It definitely was for me.

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Me performing for Bloomsday in Dublin

I never knew where I wanted to go from one job to the next, but looking back at my career it all makes sense now. I was just trying different careers to find one that fit me. And with every new job I also tried out another interest of mine. I studied theatre because I really wanted to be a dancer or choreographer, but wasn’t confident enough to go for it.

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How to get a job you really, really want

In my last two posts, I have given you some of the elements of my personal job search strategies including a list of your skills and talents and a scenario of your perfect work environment. In this post, I am going to share how I ramped it up even more to get exactly the job I wanted:
I wrote a detailed scenario of my perfect work day including:

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How to get a job you like

After getting out of a job that made me miserable, I landed in a job that interested me. If you want to know how, read my last post. I liked certain aspects of my new job, but overall it was not something I wanted to do for the rest of my life. So, after a while I started looking again. This time I wanted to get a job that I truly liked and that incorporated as many aspects as possible of my ideal work environment. I still wasn’t entirely sure what my dream job was, but I had collected a few more clues. Here is what I did:

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How to find another job fast

I once found myself in the situation of needing a new job fast in order to remove myself from a work environment that was affecting my health and well-being. I was in survival mode which is not the best time to figure out what you really want to do. You just don’t have the head space for it. So, with only vague notions about where I wanted to go, I followed this simple strategy below to get a new job, any job, and it worked for me within three months. Once you set an intention and put all your willpower and desire behind it, it will become real.
Here is what you do: