Career Advice
Career Change at 40 and After
Making a Career Change at 40 and After For many, a career change at 40-something is about optimizing. Many people have accomplished major career and life goals and are ready to take a breather to plan for their next career move, possibly an entrepreneurial venture. For others, a mid-career change is about reinventing themselves to […]
How To Find Meaningful Work: Part 2
Part 2: How to Design a Career Path Designing a career path is the next step. If you haven’t seen part 1, How to Find Meaningful Work, read that first and then come back here. With no future and nothing waiting for you, then nothing will happen unless you “make it up.” We custom design our […]
Meaningful Work
Finding Meaningful Work Am I meant to do something in particular? The short answer is no. To find your career direction, there are much better questions to ask. If you’re still wondering about what you should be doing with your life, welcome to the human race. Seeking our place in the world we backpack across […]
Career Change at 25: The Untold Story
2025 Guide for Young Professionals Making a Career Change at 25 Should I make a career change at 25? How do I know whether I’m on the right career track? Much like going on a first date, you can quickly tell whether things are clicking or not on your chosen career path. If there’s no […]
Switching Careers at 30
Switching Careers at 30, after the Hook Ups Are Over While at a party on a steamy July night, a group of 20-somethings talked about switching careers at 30, and their sex lives, and dream jobs. While out on the patio drinking a cold beer, a fascinating conversation unfolded. In unedited party dialogue, I got the […]
Follow Your Potential, Passion Comes After
What is Passion? Ask the Blue Footed Booby Lots of us are chasing after something we hope will bring us passion. Erica has a PhD in microbiology, it took her 10 years of intense work. But the future she dreamt of didn’t match reality: “There’s little room for creativity and imagination, and it’s too removed […]
Authentic Work: Part 3
Authentic Work is the Real You Beyond the philanthropic notion of making a difference in spare time. Beyond working flextime and four-day weeks. Beyond trying to balance work life with personal life. There is a place that people like Einstein showed us how to get to. Authentic work is a space to come from, where […]
Work Sucks: Part 2
Why Your Work Sucks Career satisfaction and employee engagement surveys consistently find that only 1 in 10 people have careers where work occurs as play (i.e., it fits their natural talents and sense of purpose). Here’s a rough breakout of how people feel, worldwide, about their work: 10% : Work is Play – passionate, fulfilled, […]
Work as Play: Part 1
Work as Play What’s the secret to choosing and creating work as play? Some of the greatest contributions of our time came from playfulness. Albert Einstein, Buckminster Fuller, Pablo Picasso and many more well known scientists, engineers and artists attribute their contributions to a playful state of mind, where they were open to seeing new […]