CHAPTER 4
What Surviving Pandemic Lockdowns Can Teach Us About Major Life Changes
Many of us believe that unexpected events or shocks create fertile conditions for major life and career changes by sparking us to reflect about our desires and priorities. That holds true for the coronavirus pandemic. When I asked people in an online poll to tell me how the pandemic had affected their plans for career change, 49% chose this response: “It has given me downtime to rest and/or think.”
That’s a good start, especially for those of us nearing the end of our working lives, where often we’re too busy to consider what lies ahead. But if there is one thing, I have learned from decades of studying successful career change, it’s that thinking ...
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