{"id":347,"date":"2009-04-20T21:26:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T02:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/?p=347"},"modified":"2019-06-07T13:43:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T17:43:13","slug":"changing-careers-aint-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.communify.me\/newvinegrowing\/changing-careers-aint-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing careers ain't easy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMama Bee, a blog for working moms, has a post today titled Career Change a Luxury for Most Working\u00a0Parents<\/a>. WordPress was good enough to alert me to it, because she linked to my recent post <\/a>on letting the economy nudge you into chasing your dreams.
\nMama Bee\u00a0makes some good points about how many challenges people might encounter if they want to make a career switch: what about health care? how about child care? the economics of going back to school?
\nShe opines on a New York Times article <\/a>about people’s career dreams, writing:<\/p>\n

… the article mentions a corporate lawyer who quit his law job to pursue a career in personal training, which he parlayed into a successful fitness and yoga center business. \u00a0It also talks about a woman who left her job in pharmaceutical sales to start a design business. \u00a0
\nWhat if one of these two entrepreneurs had a family? \u00a0They would have had to worry about maintaining health insurance; making enough money to cover basic expenses like food, housing and school supplies; and childcare. \u00a0With these economic pressures, going back to school, shifting careers, or starting a new business feels impossible for many people. \u00a0And that\u2019s a much bigger problem for our economy at large, because right now we need people to jump at the opportunity to innovate, not recoil because it puts their children at risk.
\nAs companies determine where to economize, jobs will be lost to changing technology and the shifting geography of manufacturing. \u00a0For employees in industries that are being eliminated \u2014 paper-based transactions or many kinds of manufacturing for example \u2014 changing careers is not just about being happier; it\u2019s critical to their ability to continue participating in the workforce at all. \u00a0We need to start talking about making innovative career shifts possible for the thousands of people who currently work in jobs that are increasingly less relevant to the US economy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s absolutely true that making a change is hard. Health care can be the golden handcuffs that keep many an unhappy soul shackled to an unfulfilling job. If you’ve got a family to provide for, waiting three or five years to turn a profit with an entrepreneurial venture might sound laughable.
\nI think it’s also true that life is a series of tradeoffs, and if you want something badly enough, you might be able to make it happen.
\nWhat if you started your own business nights and weekends while you kept the job that provided health care? Or if you’re married, if you worked out an arrangement where one of you has the job with the benefits while the other starts a business?
\nI got my MBA in Michigan’s part-time program, which meant I didn’t need to give up my full-time salary. Bonus: I worked at Michigan and my boss was generous enough to approve me for a tuition discount.\u00a0 It meant giving up several nights a week with my husband, but five years later, I had a degree that helped me get the job I have today.
\nOne of my cousins looked after the children of her siblings while her brothers and sisters worked together in a family business. Maybe there are creative ways like that to address child care?
\nCould you downsize your life — sell a car, spend less on entertainment, whatever — to make sure basics get covered while you’re starting a new career path? Or could you get a Small Business Administration loan to help with cash flow?
\nI’m not disagreeing that it might be hard. But anything worth having is worth fighting for.
\nWhat are your ideas for making a career switch work?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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