Considering a Career Change? Plan Ahead
For someone with a financial background, becoming a physician would require a career revolution, accompanied by a huge investment in education and training. Instead of following that path, many workers choose to evolve into a field related to their current job because the learning curve is shorter and they can return to comparable wages more quickly. For example, if you’ve managed people, you might consider general business management as an option.
“Nobody ever got hired because they were really good at something. They got hired because the company needed them,” observes Waffles Natusch, president of the Barrett Group in Warwick, R.I., who has also successfully changed careers. Read more…
