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Resources: Finding Your Life's Passion!
Favorite Sayings:
- Enjoyment is the path that leads to your passion!!! (Unknown)
- Nobody is to be pitied as much as the person who gets nothing out of his job but his pay. (Dale Carnegie)
- When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is duty, life is slavery. (Maxim Gorky)
- The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone. (Rumi)
- Wake up with the morning breeze and ask for a change. Open and fill yourself with the wine that is your life. Pass it around. Pass it to me first! (Rumi)
Flo's Career Change Resources
I am often asked what resources I used to decide to leave computer programming and project management to become a Life Coach and "Healer"! There are tons of books, career counselors, career coaches and web sites out there. Take a stroll through your local library or book store. This section includes resources that I used on my own transition journey, and the professionals whom I have experienced professionally.
As part of my journey to discover what I wanted to do other than technology, I worked with a super lady named
Helen Crompton who at that time worked at the IBM
Career Center. I mention her below a couple of times because I highly respect her opinions.
Along with Helen, books that I used to help lead me through my career change include:
- Cool Careers for Dummies by Marty Nemko, Paul Edwards, and Sarah Edwards. I simply browsed this one. It has nice section with zillions of careers one can contemplate. It was handy to have this as reference when going through the other books. I got this title from a colleague going through this same self-evaluation.
- Work Less, Make More: Stop Working So Hard and Create the Life You Really Want! by Jennifer White. I heard her speak at a WITI (Women in Technology International) meeting in October of 1999. This meeting was actually where the seed that I wanted to become a Life Coach was planted. With my Mom, Grandmother and impossible IBM jobs it was on the back burner for close to a year before I could act. This is a great book that I recommend with lots of exercises to help you think through what you are good at doing and what are your weaknesses. It helps you identify what you like and do not like. Jennifer is a coach, and she has a lot of experience helping people through this kind of transition. She is a dynamo. Helen at the IBM Career center said to temper this book with your value system. Helen said your career must fit into your value system, and must have a high reading on your "joy meter".
- Do What You Are : Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type--Revised and Updated Edition Featuring E-careers for the 21st Century by Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger. This book takes you through a Meyers-Briggs personality assessment, then has a cool chapter of possible careers by each personality type. This book was highly recommended by Helen in the IBM Career Center, and is very good. I really liked this book as well.
- Take Yourself to the Top by Career Coach Laura Berman Fortgang. This book (also recommended by Helen Crompton at IBM) is FABULOUS!!! Laura is dynamite as a speaker as well!
- Other highly recommended books include:
- Targeting the Job You Want by Kate Wendleton.
- There are a number of great career change support books by a group called the "Five O'Clock Club". Do a search on "Five O'Clock Club" in Amazon or your favorite book web site.
Web Sites to Support Your Career Transition:
- Salary.com lets you see expected salary for different careers by geography.
Professional Career Coaches I Recommend:
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