Fear on Steroids: Career Change Feeeelings

02/04/24 • 19 min

Treating a career change like a purely tactical, logical problem doesn't work. Because we need to address the mental and emotional side of career change. We're complicated human beings, so we need a more nuanced, human framework. In this episode, we'll talk about how to identify and soften some of your fears and assumptions so they don't sabotage your career change.

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Careergasm - Fear on Steroids: Career Change Feeeelings

Transcript

the emotional side of career change

Sarah Vermunt: [00:00:00] Have you ever noticed that a lot of career experts treat career change? Like it is some sort of tactical engineering problem to be solved with a logical sequential steps. 1, 2 3. There you go. It's done. Perhaps you've noticed this doesn't work for most people. In my experience, I find it doesn't work for most people because it leaves out the mental and emotional side. Of career change all of