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Anya Kamenetz, writing in Fast Company , says this will look like continuous, back-to-back careerchange, so that job hopping begins to look tame and totally normal. At any rate, you can’t get through the second part of your career doing the work you did in the first part. I wanted a coaching session that changed my life.
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I can maybe make those careerchanges because that’s, again, another resiliency opportunity. I think it, at the end of the day, people are gonna be hopefully happier with these different moves and ability to just really embrace the changes that happen. And I just started gobbling up every resilience book I could.
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Each writer we studied actually wrote the same book over and over again. But I’m going to need a really good book or something to get me through the ride. I'm writing about trying to undo past fuck-ups (apologies to the farmer for that word) in every single book. The only person you can change is yourself.
Also, I've written a lot about how careerchange goes better when you can create a story of your life that shows the upcoming change is the next logical step. Posted by Lydia on September 26, 2010 at 1:53 pm | permalink | Reply Oh God, I was riding along very happy for you until he gave you a Mitch Albom book.
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Lots of job and careerchanges. One could say that your endless pursuit of career flexibility has paradoxically had the opposite effect in your life. For some reason, your voice seems to get through to her much better and smoother than mine on topics like frugality etc. : ) She totally looks up to you as a mentor!
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