Mid-career Professional
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 […]
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 […]
Insights Into My Fulfillment
Insights Into My Fulfillment Anthony, I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to talk with me today. As always, I have to make the final decision as to which path to move along. However, taking the aptitude test and talking it over with you has and will continue to provide me with […]
Connecting the Dots
“It’s so refreshing to talk about this stuff with some form of data instead of just trying to pull insights out of myself that I can’t really access or explain.”
Quality Engineering to Green Architecture
“I’m happy to report that I’m in the process of enrolling in Architecture School. The consultation with you was such a great experience, a life changing one.”
Policy to Product Design
“I found my overall Pathfinders experience to be *incredibly* valuable. I would say I consider it one of the best investments I have ever made. You gave me much greater clarity about the type of person I am …”
IT/UX Information Architecture to Performance Arts
“I’m still floored in many (good) ways by our meeting. I came away with great insights, knowledge, and a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick. . .”
Public Policy Consultant to Social Work
Career Change from Public Policy to Social Work June 25, 2012 Hi Anthony — Hope you’re doing well. I wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know how everything is going. I ended up getting into all three MSW programs I applied to and decided to enroll George Mason. I just found out […]
Chemical Engineer to All Girls School Faculty
“In short, the insight from the career testing, and my conversation with you basically changed my life. I was floored by how much everything we talked about ended up in the work I’ve been doing.”