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Mid-Life Career Options

Mid-Life Career Options

10 Success Rules – Basics that We Ignore

Posted in: Life Choices, Mid-Life Career Options, Values and Beliefs, Your Journal on May 4, 2013

Every successful person I know will:

  1. Have clear, well defined goals.
  2. Embrace discipline.
  3. Use their time wisely.
  4. Act on good ideas and finish things that they start.
  5. Shed anything that holds them back.
  6. Engage other people in their Objectives.
  7. Reject excuses.
  8. Accept that they make choices and sometimes sacrifices.
  9. Believe in themselves, no matter what.
  10. Will be successful in multiple areas.
    11. … Read the rest

Ordinary People with Extraordinary Careers

Posted in: Ealry Career Choices, Extraordinary Careers, Featured, Mid-Life Career Options on December 20, 2011

Career Counseling is for People of Any Age.

The correct career choice after school is not nearly as important as we think.  Career Counseling from a creative career counselor should be considered at any age.  In particular, parents can afford to be less stressed about making the ‘correct’ life choice for their child as it is more likely that the child will have several careers over a working life that should span 50 years or more!

The world has changed and it is important to realize that opportunities abound at every age.  Here is just a short list of examples of people who have been bold and turned the ordinary into something extra-ordinary.

The stories are real, but the people’s names have been changed.

Ordinary People with Extraordinary Careers

From Motorbike mechanic to Forensic Accountant and wine maker

Career counseling at school level found no fertile ground in Bernard.  He … Read the rest

Project Management Skills Training Courses – How to approach a PM Career

Posted in: Career Choices, Ealry Career Choices, Management, Mid-Life Career Options on December 12, 2011

Project Management Skills Training Courses

Project Management Skills Training courses are only 50% of the requirement to become a project manager.

Project management is different from many other professions or careers.   It is not a skill you can acquire simply by going to college, doing some training or doing some courses.   The knowledge and skills are built by a combination of industry or specialist knowledge, people management experience supported by project management training and courses.  The mix of skills can can only be gained over years by building on each subskill  in layers with a fair amount of all the ingredients at every level.

A good project manager will have industry and work experience and formal Project Management training courses or education to form the basis.  It will further require specific project management experience with a successful track record before you will be recognized as a Project … Read the rest

Midlife Crisis and Changing Careers

Posted in: Career Choices, Late Life, Mid Life, Mid-Life Career Options on October 11, 2011

Changing Careers during a Midlife Crisis

Are you facing a midlife crisis yet?

Midlife CrisisIf retirement is on your horizon you should be facing a major mid life crisis because you are about to face a harsh reality. Changing Careers is the more life enhancing option. Online education from certificate courses to online college degrees are more accessible than people realise.

The first world average Life Expectancy is approaching 90 years.  Government and all other pension funds have all come under immense pressure in dealing with a growing non-productive retired community.  Know that Institutional problems become the problems of the individuals depending on them.

It is unrealistic to imagine that we can be supported by our parents and governments into our 20′s, then work for some 35 years and again be supported by the system for a further 35 years.

That means that on average we work for 38% of our … Read the rest

There were several times in my life that I stared at the walls and desperately thought:

“How the fuck am I going to overcome this?”

The answers always came.. maybe a day or many days later, but they always came! — Henk Jordaan

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