Career Change Quotes

“Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When you make the decision to start something new, first figure out the jobs you want to do. Then position yourself to play where no one else is playing.”
― Whitney Johnson, Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work

“Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills.”
― Abhishek Ratna, No Parking. No Halt. Success Non Stop!

“Throw away the rule book and create your own.”
― Sandra Bellamy

“No one creates a perfect resume on their first try. Writing a perfect resume is a messy process, but the easiest way to start is by simply getting in the right mindset and putting pen to paper.”
― Matthew T. Cross, The Resume Design Book: How to Write a Resume in College & Influence Employers to Hire You

“The time to build your future is in your teenage years and your 20s, but equally, in your 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond.”
― Lukasz Laniecki, You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes

“A grieving process alongside career change is perfectly normal. The key is to accepting resistance and anticipating it instead of trying to avoid or demonise it. Resistance is a natural part of any transition.”
― Adele Barlow, Leaving Law: How Others Did It and How You Can Too

“Don't allow your own insecurities to keep you away from the career or lifestyle you believe you deserve. ”
― Germany Kent

“Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Your education is important because with only a few words you can show an employer the depth of your potential.”
― Matthew T. Cross, The Resume Design Book: How to Write a Resume in College & Influence Employers to Hire You

“Several years ago, I realized that I didn’t want to spend all my life in medicine. It had me in a sort of spiritual box, like a plant whose roots are getting crowded. I felt I wasn’t growing. So I promised myself that I would quit while I still had the energy to get involved in something new. There’s nothing wrong with medicine. There’s more paperwork, more lawsuits, less understanding between doctors and patients. But it’s still a great business. But not for me - not any longer.”
― Richard S. Weeder, Surgeon: The View from Behind the Mask

“We live in an age where our career becomes a key playground through which to derive a sense of identity, fulfilment, and meaning. A job is no longer just a way to pay the bills.”
― Adele Barlow, Leaving Law: How Others Did It and How You Can Too

“In previous generations, identity was largely inherited where these days it is now constructed. Today we are all architects of our own identities, yet we are still learning how to put together career blueprints.”
― Adele Barlow, Leaving Law: How Others Did It and How You Can Too

“Like so many attorneys, I careened from crisis to crisis, dream to dream, idea to idea, plan to plan, notion to notion, and never found the dream that led to the exit from the law firm life.”
― Mark Shaiken, And... Just Like That: Essays on a life before, during and after the law

“And do you want to know what else I do a great deal of
the time? I dream. Dreaming always was, and always will be, good, at least for me. There is nothing wrong with adding to the long list of things I will not necessarily be able to do in my life. Dreaming about them makes me feel good. Coming up with new pipe dreams is not such a bad thing at all.”
― Mark Shaiken, And... Just Like That: Essays on a life before, during and after the law

“as I begIn my journey away from the law life, you should know, or already have figured out, that I think the law looms and it consumes, fumes, presumes, entombs; it lurks in the classroom, the conference room, the boardroom, and the courtroom; sometimes it assumes; it is often the legendary professional jealous mistress, hiding within a law firm with a nom de plume that sounds austere and thoughtful and august and distinguished... and sometimes, just sometimes, despite itself, it manages to bloom. It is larger than life. It makes few concessions for dreamers, and perhaps dreamers have no right to expect concessions. It took me a very, very long time to learn this: while there may be better ways to go through life, at the same time, there are many, many worse ways to go through life.”
― Mark Shaiken, And... Just Like That: Essays on a life before, during and after the law

“Sense the signals.
You will know when to flip.”
― Harjeet Khanduja, The Storytelling Leader and other stories