Is the COVID-19 Pandemic Kicking You in the Butt? The COVID-19 pandemic is causing the 3rd major disruption in our careers in the last 20 years. The first was the dot-com bust, followed by the 9/11 disaster. Next came the great recession caused by the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Both the dot-com bust and the sub-prime […]
Adapting Your Career to the Post CoronaVirus World
Adapting Your Career to the Post CoronaVirus World Just about everyone I talk to has an opinion on what the post CoronaVirus world will look like. We all agree that life and work will be different in the post CoronaVirus world. We will all need to adapt to this new reality. Over the next few […]
Repurposing Your Industry Knowledge or Skills [Updated]
Repurposing Your Industry Knowledge or Skills When you want to make a career pivot you will either be repurposing your industry knowledge or job skills. We make career pivots rather than career changes because for those of us in the 2nd half of life, we have financial obligations…mortgage, putting kids through college, retirement, savings… Note: […]
Are You a Closet Creative? Are You Coming out of the Closet?
Closet Creative I have a lot of clients who should wear a name tag that says Closet Creative. That would be the only way you’d know they have many creative talents that are waiting to burst out. These folks have taken their musical, artistic, or literary interests and shoved them into a closet, especially as it […]
I Became Lost And It Was The Best Thing That Happened To Me [Guest Post]
I Became Lost Let me explain. In mid-2017 I decided to leave my job. I was the Executive Director and Publisher for the Mennonite Church in the U.S. and Canada. I was ideally suited for the job and for most of my 11 years there I had enjoyed it immensely. I had reached the pinnacle […]
How to Work Online When You Think You’re Too Old [Guest Post]
How to Work Online When You Think You’re Too Old The ‘how’ of working online is actually the easiest part of everything. The hard part of working online is what is going on in your mind. Let’s first define ‘too old’ What age would that be? 45? 55? 65? 75? I bet we would all […]
What to Do When You Are Stuck in Your Career
What to Do When You Are Stuck We have a number of members of the Career Pivot online community who are just flat stuck. They are paralyzed by indecision because they either have too many choices or are not knowledgeable enough to make a decision. They choose to stay stuck. Yes, doing nothing is a […]
How To Demonstrate Expertise When You Have No Experience
Expertise but No Experience I have been hearing the mantra, “I have a lot of expertise but no experience. How do I get people to give me a chance?” You may be pivoting into a new area where you have a lot of expertise from that Masters degree you just attained, you have life skills […]
Should I Take the Buyout Package? [Updated]
Buyout Package Have you or someone you know been offered a buyout package? If you work for a large multi-national corporation or the US federal government, the answer is probably “yes.” How do you determine whether to take it or not? The idea for this post came from a New York Times article, Making Money […]
