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Cash In On Your Skills: Become A Virtual Assistant [Guest Post]

May 22, 2017 by Marc Miller 9 Comments

Virtual Assistant Have you thought about a career as a Virtual Assistant? What if there was a career that allowed you to: Work from home (and home can be anywhere in the world) Travel (did I mention you can work from anywhere in the world, even an RV?) Enjoy the freedom and flexibility of being […]

Repurposing Your Industry Knowledge or Skills

April 24, 2017 by Marc Miller Leave a Comment

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, […]

Is Your Career Tank on Empty? What to Do Next?

April 3, 2017 by Marc Miller 2 Comments

Is Your Career Tank of Empty? Your career tank is one of my favorite metaphors and it comes from Jason Alba from JibberJobber.com. Jason tells a story about driving a rental car trying to get to a speaking engagement and the fuel gauge is almost on empty. We know if we are driving our car what […]

5 Tips to Pivot Your Career Path [Guest Post]

December 7, 2016 by guest blogger 3 Comments

Pivot Your Career Path It’s no easy thing choosing a career and sticking with it. More often than not, we study and pursue a field we end up disinterested with, only to discover our true affinities along the way. Luckily, in this day and age, we have the resources to make huge pivots in our […]

I Don’t Like Change – It Has to Be On My Terms

November 9, 2016 by Marc Miller 3 Comments

I Don’t Like Change I don’t like change—unless I have control over when and how it is implemented. The needs statement in my Birkman report says: It is preferable that you be given advance warning of any change that significantly affects your life or work, and that you be provided the opportunity to express your input […]

Reader Mailbag – My Industry Opportunities Are Shrinking!

September 26, 2016 by Marc Miller Leave a Comment

My Industry Opportunities Are Shrinking! This is the third in a series called Mailbag, wherein I respond to readers’ questions about career issues. Click here to for past reader mailbag issues. I have been in printing sales (direct mail) for 23 years. Been in the business for 30 years and graduated college for this field. My […]

Are You a Closet Creative?

June 1, 2016 by Marc Miller Leave a Comment

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 […]

5 Things to Consider Before a Midlife Career Change [Guest Post]

May 25, 2016 by guest blogger 8 Comments

5 Things to Consider Before a Midlife Career Change If you’re in your 40s or 50s and are considering a career switch, you’re not alone. According to a 2014 survey, more than 4.5 million Americans made a career change in midlife, either to pursue a more fulfilling line of work or earn more money. Another […]

Carpeting to Chronicling LifeStories – Career Story

May 23, 2016 by Marc Miller 3 Comments

Mike O’Krent and LifeStories Alive I want to tell you the story of my dear friend, Mike O’Krent. Several months ago, I wrote the post, Share Your Story and Inspire Others with this hope that some of my readers would step forward and share their own Career Pivot stories. Here is the first of the series! […]

Are you Staying in a Job you Should Quit? – Guest Post

January 20, 2016 by guest blogger 1 Comment

Are you Staying in a Job you Should Quit? So, you’re fed up at work and dream of the day you explain to your boss, ever so eloquently, that you won’t be coming back. Yet day after day after day, you continue to do just that. Are you crazy?!? Even though it takes guts to […]