Your job is being eliminated - WTF do you do? Technologies, industries, and markets all change. If you are in a role that is being diminished due to change what do you do after a job loss? Reinventing yourself and starting over after a job loss is terrifying but here are some tips you can do to handle a job loss.
When it comes to changing careers and exploring what career is right for you, we need to tackle something up front: there is no magic answer.
I know you want there to be a magic answer out there, that you just haven’t discovered yet. The answer that someone will just shoot you an email with the exact job you should be doing that will make you wildly happy. The one and only answer that exists if you turn over enough self-help quizzes.
Having gone through two major career changes what I've learned is the answer most likely is right in front of you.
Name a job and I’ve done it.
While intellectually I knew I had to make a career change, I just couldn’t give up a job that I loved so much it had been the basis of much of my identity. I was a teacher.
Are you already feeling overwhelmed by all the “IT’S ALMOST A NEW YEAR!” inspo quotes filling your feed…. annnnnd yet, you do feel like maybe yeah, it is time for a change?
If you wanna change something up, but have no idea exactly what - here are four tried and true ways to get your creative thinking juices flowing.
