You might already know your aim clearly in terms of you know what career path
you want to follow but perhaps there is confusion about what to do or maybe what
to do first should you get a second degree a masters
or a PhD degree or join a course or maybe just do some training or go to a
workshop there are so many possibilities that can lead to where you want to go
and thinking about this very intensely can oftentimes lead to analysis
paralysis something that I myself am oftentimes guilty of what you need to do
in the initial phases of career change is to do a lot of exploration and
experimentation research is always useful and important meaning that you
browse the web and read up on people who have successfully changed their careers
and see how they've done it but what is even more important is to turn this
research into more of a field research if you will
so what you need to do is to go out there and join as many as activities as
possible where you actually have the chance to meet people who are already
working in the field in the career that you want to work in and which allows you
to actually interact with them and talk to them and ask them questions about
their process the only criteria I think is important
to know when choosing these activities is that they should in the beginning at
least be low risk and low investment low risk meaning that by joining these you
actually have nothing to lose and by low investment I mean that these activities
should not cost you too much you shouldn't invest too much money or too
much time in a way that is disproportionate to the stage where you
are at so this would mean that for example before you decide to enroll in a
university program which will take a lot of time and high investment what you can
first do is try to join more of those cost free events and seminars that may
me maybe only take one or two hours and also do not cost that much to explore
more because once you join these kind of events you will meet a lot of new people
and new doors will open so maybe in the beginning you are confused about which
step to take and you expect that from the beginning you already have like like
a very complete map of how to get to your goal but this is not the case what
you have to do is you have to open one door go into the room meet these people
talk to them and see what's behind there and then you will see that actually this
room there are there are many more doors there are ten more doors for you to
choose from and then you open the other door and then you go into the room and
and so on so it is in fact a very long process
one example I want to give you in my own family about my mother who was
a pharmacist and she worked in a pharmacy for several years but then in
her later years like in in the last five or six years she started a teaching
career in Taichi and this might come as a surprise to many people because it's
quite a big of a change but what many people maybe don't know is her process
it took her a lot of time to get there and the first thing that she actually
did in the very beginning was join a tai chi class and not just one she actually
joined multiple Tai Chi classes she she went to different teachers and she
observed how these classes were held and what the teachers did so she herself
went through a very long process before she arrived at a point where she started
to realize that maybe teaching Tai Chi is something that she would be on she
would also be interested in