Here are some thoughts about restarting your career.

Your starting point may be because you have recently lost your job.  Or  you are working but are not happy in your job.  This is an excellent time to devote to be thinking about your next career. Use a little bit of your Thanksgiving holiday to begin your process of discovery.

Try this exercise: on a clean sheet of paper write a paragraph about a dream occupation.  This is pretend now, so sky’s the limit. 

Describe what you would be doing, who you would be working with; what is the environment like around you, e.g., are you outside working, private office, modern office; or are you in a creative loft type environment?

At separate times, write five (5) of these pretend job papers. Do this at separate periods of time; don’t try to rush this exercise.

After you are finished, read them all looking for clues that stand out as a preference.  For instance, maybe four-out-of-five will be work outside or dealing directly with people.  There are any number of combinations.

What I look for with my clients is: what is the common thread that runs through all the scenarios?  I definitely use this as a tool to stear my client to her/his job selection

(1) You have to know where you are going to be able to get there.

(2) Imagination is the tip of the iceberg to our intuition.  Often our dream world is a message about what we dare not to think possible.  

Let’s deal with impossibles later.  Right now just find out what are your impossible dreams.

Best wishes for a happy Thanksgiving.

 Mary Ann

How to begin you ask?

Try an exercise with me.  Write a paragraph about what you wou