From Archaeologist to Designer: How One Man Made an Unusual Pivot to Find Work He’s Excited About

by Meredith Walters | Jan 24, 2017 | Blog, Career Change, Common Challenges, Fear

I know how helpful it can be to hear about people like you who have made successful career changes, especially those who have overcome common challenges along the way. With that in mind, this week I want to share with you Jeff Leon’s story so you can learn exactly how...

Why It’s Hard to Make a Change—And How to Make It Easier

by Meredith Walters | Jan 10, 2017 | Blog, Career Change, Common Challenges

I had a humbling moment the other day when I went to do my year-end review. I was feeling stressed out by the list of things I wanted to take care of before the New Year, which was getting longer rather than shorter with each passing day. I was convinced I wouldn’t...

The One Thing You Absolutely Need to Find Your Calling (And the Best Place to Find It)

by Meredith Walters | Dec 13, 2016 | Blog, Career Change, Exercises

If you still aren’t doing work you love, you’ve probably developed a good story about what you’re missing in order to explain why that is. Maybe it’s that you don’t have enough time, money, or energy to find work you’d enjoy. Perhaps it’s that you don’t have the right...

The 5 Steps to Finding Your Calling

by Meredith Walters | Oct 4, 2016 | Blog, Career Change

It’s not easy to find the work you’re meant to do in the world. You have to get to know yourself really well. You have to become willing to make mistakes and risk failure. And you have to take tentative, often awkward steps into the unknown. That is, if you even know...

What If I Don’t Have the Right Skills or Experience for What I Want to Do?

by Meredith Walters | Sep 20, 2016 | Blog, Career Change, Common Challenges

I hear this question a lot from people facing career change. Sometimes the people asking this question are somewhat early on in their careers and only have experience in one field. Other times they have lots of experience but the change they want to make feels like a...

The Problem With Passion: How Do I Choose a Career When I Have Too Many Interests?

by Meredith Walters | Aug 23, 2016 | Blog, Career Change, Common Challenges

I worked with a client recently who faced a very common and somewhat tricky challenge when it comes to making a career change. John (whose name I’ve changed for this post) had been in software development for 20 years when he approached me for help figuring out what...