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5 Reasons I Quit My Day Job to Pursue My Dream

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How to Start a Successful Consulting Business: The Complete 10 Step Guide (2019)

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Admit it – you’ve thought about starting your own consulting business. Life as a consultant has a lot going for it. If you’re like many would-be consultants, you’re just not sure how to get started. People often ask: How do I get clients for my consulting business? Choose your niche.

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Embrace Metaphor in the Career Coaching Conversation

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With the power of framing and reframing perspectives, metaphors have been used widely in the career counseling process. Client and career consultant are working together to shift the thinking away from issues and concerns and build up a creative and meaningful future filled with possibilities(McMahon, 2016).

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Attention to problems matters more than solutions to problems

Penelope Trunk

I realize that this is because people who are strong performers at work get lots of advice for how to manage their career. At a point in my life when I had tons of disposable income but no boyfriend, I hired a feng shui consultant. My apartment had almost nothing in it, but I was curious. What would a feng shui expert advise?

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Overcome Resistance to Change with Organizational Psychologist, Marina Field

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Meet Organizational Psychologist and Change Consultant, Marina Field Jenn DeWall: Managing your career can sometimes feel like a maze where you constantly bump into obstacles as you’re trying to achieve your goal. And then once I was done with school and got my PhD, I went into consulting. Jenn DeWall: I love that.

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Being an expert takes time, not talent | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

It's cool to tell stories about what I'm going through so I can inspire others (I do career consulting). For more than three decades I served in programming, systems analyst work, systems administration, data base administration, consulting and tech support. I am well into my own ten thousand hours as a writer.

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How to manage a college education | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

There are actually a lot of things you can do with a law degree, including teaching, consulting, working at the federal or state levels. So I went out an talked to my older sister’s friends who are lawyers, social workers, marketing managers, consultants. At least they have a job. The government needs attorneys too.

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