10 Ways To Start A New Career

Good morning everybody,

Today we have a quick post, ten things you can do to start a new career.

1. Resign from your current position. This sounds drastic doesn't it? Quitting your current job could give you the kick in the pants that you need to get into the industry you really want to.

2. While working at your current day job, work on your new career either at nights or on the weekends or both. Working on your career could mean a number of things. Study, research, practice. You decide.

3. Volunteer. Because you are volunteer you are not locked into it for the rest of your life. You could find out after five minutes that the dream job you had in your mind actually sucks in reality and you should look for something else.

4. Get a part time job in your field of interest.  Same as volunteering except you have a little bit of money coming in.

5. Pick up a freelance job. This is when you hire out your services and you are not actually attached to any one employer.

6. Take a university course or a vocational school course to upgrade your skills or up-skill in the modern vernacular. For people who want to go back to 'school.' These days courses can be taken by correspondence so that you are literally working on yourself in your free time.

7. Use your free time to explore other opportunities in other fields or industries. Don't go home and watch TV or surf the net looking for all of those dirty websites. Use the net to look for information. Go out to events in your areas. I'm sure there are networking events going on all the time.

8. Do a "stock take"of your interests, strengths, abilities and skills. What are you suited for? Ask other people that know you very well with help for this one as they maybe able to see things that you wouldn't be able to pick up.

9. Ask current professionals in your desired industry out for lunch. Have a list of questions that you wish to ask them and try to learn from them. Both their successes and not so successful moments.

10. It may be that you are happy in your industry but just not in the correct position for your skills etc. Why don't you investigate doing something else in that industry?

There you go. These are just my ideas. Keep at it and I'm sure that you will come out on top. All the best.