How To Get A Job You Love

chapter 10

Changing career and finding work worth doing

‘Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.’

Robert Frost (1914b)

This chapter helps you to

• •rethink the idea of ‘career change’;
• •begin with small steps;
• •look at the way we choose career paths;
• •consider finding work that feels more purposeful, or more like a calling.

Career change

Let’s tackle this ‘change of career’ idea, which is how we describe a change of sector. Some argue that we have just one career built from multiple experiences – relationships, learning, work and everything else that engages or distracts us outside work. Incidentally, you will do better at interview ...