- Today, I'm going to give you the inspiration you need
for a fantastic midlife career change.
Now, you may already be halfway through your career.
You might even be thinking,
shouldn't I have figured all this out by now?
(chuckles)
But if you're curious, well, then, keep watching.
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And, if you get to the end of the video,
I'm gonna share with you my dream job.
Just a hint, I don't think they openly advertise,
but when they do, oh, your application is coming from me.
So, you may have seen a career counselor,
maybe at school or university.
But, even if the advice they gave you was fantastic,
well, the truth is, the fastest growing jobs
didn't even exist a few years ago.
(chuckles)
What they didn't tell you at the career service
is that it is never too late to change careers.
Something that many of my happiest clients
have indeed done.
I'm Dr. Suzanne Doyle Morris,
and I have had helped hundreds of working women
make career changes, often at midlife.
And today, what I'm gonna do is,
I'm gonna focus on three of the best examples
of the types of midlife career changes that were a stretch,
but weren't completely outlandish, so, today,
there's not gonna be any talk about
running away to join the circus, on this particular video.
(chuckles)
Now, I know a grandiose career change
won't work for many of you who have mortgages to pay for
and kids to send to school.
So, what exactly are three of your best
midlife career change options?
Well, I'm gonna share three examples
of people I know who made midlife career changes
that you possibly wouldn't expect, but can totally emulate.
The first is a woman who started a business.
Now, a woman I interviewed for my most recent book,
she went from being a banker
to actually starting a very successful yoga practice,
but not until her late forties.
Now, starting a business might not seem obvious,
or a really well thought out choice,
but what's interesting is that
while people know that millennials
are actually the most likely to start businesses,
the most successful businesses are actually started
by people in their early forties.
And what makes them successful
is because by then they've built up the three c's.
They've got competence, credibility, and connections.
(laughs briefly)
Now, yoga had always relieved her stress,
and she took a risk and started using yoga
in some of her meetings, to even kick off the sessions.
Now, this no doubt raised a few eyebrows.
But, people would routinely come up to her afterwards
and say how much further along the meeting went,
and how much less political it was
than ones they'd attended even that same day.
So, she knew she was onto something,
so she set up her yoga practice in her late forties,
and finds that so much more fulfilling.
Now, the second killer career change involves
using your skill set,
but in a completely different sector.
Now, I know two guys who left high power advertising jobs
to essentially write non fiction books.
Now, I love their writing style,
and what I notice is that the skill that they learned
for the first half of their career
makes their copy that much punchier.
Plus, it's a heck of a lot easier for them
to promote their work
because they already know how to deal with the media and PR,
that helps get them the exposure they need
to essentially maintain their earnings.
Now, that was canny of them,
because it's actually the financial repercussions
that stop most people from making a midlife career change.
But, it just means it needs to be
well thought through and planned.
Maybe with a friend or a coach, much more strategically
than you did when you were deciding on your first jobs.
Okay, now I've got a quick question for you.
Name the job you have, plus a job you'd love to think about,
that feels a million miles away,
and think what the two of them have in common.
What skills do you have now
that could actually serve you well in that dream job?
It feels, you know, just completely beyond the pale.
My third inspiring midlife career change
is about getting a completely different role
but in the same company.
And that shows you don't always need to leave corporate life
in order to have a midlife career change with a difference.
I worked with a woman who had left becoming a partner
at her firm, something that she had spent
her entire legal career getting to,
and is a dream for most of them,
to essentially take on a new role, but at the same firm.
So she left that job and instead designed
and took on a role as head of gender diversity for EMEA,
for that same company.
Now, that was awesome, because it maintained her earnings,
but gave her a completely new set of challenges,
with which she personally identified.
So, what was her new goal?
Well, to move women quicker up the ladder to partnership,
and make sure that they felt
so much more supported than she had felt
when she was climbing that proverbial greasy ladder herself,
and to her, that's wholly satisfying.
So, if you're gonna get ready to make the switch,
get out a bit of paper,
and do that exercise
I asked you to think about a minute ago.
First, name the job you have now.
Second, name a dream job that feels a million miles away.
Now, jot down what they have in common,
and four, write the skills that you have now
that could be useful in that dream job.
If you're thinking about switching careers,
complete that exercise,
and then get in touch for a free coaching call,
to see how I could potentially help you
make a very exciting midlife career happen.
(laughs)
I've got a whole series on switching careers online
on YouTube, and subscribe to this channel
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Now, I'd love to know about your potential career switch,
so in the comments below, write your dream job,
and I'm gonna start by the job I'm still searching for,
dark chocolate taste tester.
I'm not bragging, but I think I'd be pretty good at it.
So, put your dream job in the comments below,
or share this video with someone that you know
is thinking about a career switch,
'cause I'm so excited about helping you
with your own midlife career switch.
And I look forward to talking to you really soon.
Because, remember, no one cares about your career
as much as you do.