THE JOURNEY
Asking the Question
So you may ask:
“What is the path like in a mid-career switch? Where do I end up?”
Defining the Destination
A destination is defined by the path one chooses, whether in personal growth, travel plan, or career paths.
There is no other more accurate way to express this.
Finding the Start of Your Journey
This usually involves a person, a coach or a recruiter, or possibly, through self-discovery as well. When discovering a path, it requires your training and discipline to corroborate in a state of contemplative mindfulness.
Assessing the growth opportunity in a career development is a process of understanding self and evaluating the long term goals you set ahead for yourself [4].
Making Sacrifices and Adjustments
Do you have to make any sacrifices or personal adjustments?
Changes to daily working routine and lifestyle pattern may also affect those with family and children although not always in a negative way.
In short, a career change involves more than a new set of clothes and a new name card. Begin by expecting inner changes.
Navigating the Crossroads
Coming out of your career crossroad to arriving at a destination is not a swipe right or left action but an enduring process of exploration, doing and undoing, setting and resetting the ignition buttons in your chosen profession.
How far away are you from destination—the ideal income, or the professional status, is a very personal question.
Being comfortable does not mean the same thing to different people, hence again, always measure your progress and accomplishment according to how you value yourself, and not how society values you.
Reaching the Final Destination
A life-changing career move will you give enough time to hone your industry skills, develop unique successful strategies and establish a strong business network based on more than one set of personal criteria.
Your investment in hard skills training and professional soft upscaling techniques will take time to see fruition. The point at which attainment of happiness or transcendence is realized is what we would consider to be the final destination.
