How To Find a New Career Before it's Too Late
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Donny is ready to leave the restaurant industry once and for all. As a recovering alcoholic, he was already looking for a new career before COVID-19 upended his life. But at 38 years old, Donny has held 30 different jobs, and without a bachelor's degree, he worries that he doesn't have what employers are looking for. On this episode of How To!, we bring in Jessi Hempel, host of the LinkedIn podcast Hello Monday, to help Donny kickstart a new career...during a pandemic. According to Jessi, now is actually a great time to do informational interviews—virtually, if necessary—to expand your network and broaden your horizons. She says it's important to realize that experience comes in many forms. People skills, not perfect resumes, can ultimately help you get hired.
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| 0:00.0 | So where are you working right now? I am working at a restaurant here in Kansas City. |
| 0:06.3 | Things are kind of up in the air in the restaurant world right now. So, you know, just trying to find |
| 0:11.1 | someplace that, you know, makes me feel safe where I can also |
| 0:14.5 | contribute and make money because it's a scary time. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to how-to I'm Charles Stuhig. More than 40 million people have filed for |
| 0:26.3 | unemployment in the last few months and for many people this is a really |
| 0:30.8 | rough time but for some this is also a period that's helped |
| 0:34.6 | and realize they never really liked their jobs in the first place. Or it's |
| 0:38.4 | prompted some people to start thinking, maybe this is the nudge I need to find |
| 0:42.3 | something new. |
| 0:43.0 | But how do you do that when you've been doing the same thing for years or decades? |
| 0:48.0 | How do you jump into a new career when you're not in your early 20s and fresh out of college? |
| 0:52.0 | That's what this week's listener is wondering. not in your early 20s and fresh out of college. |
| 0:53.0 | That's what this week's listener is wondering. |
| 0:55.1 | My name is Donnie. |
| 0:56.5 | I'm a 38-year-old single guy who wants to change careers. |
| 1:00.4 | And because I wasted so much time I feel a little too old to start completely at the bottom. |
| 1:07.0 | You know, are they going to want to hire an intern that's 40 that might not be able to contribute fully to the |
| 1:16.1 | company. Donnie has goals. He wants to find a girlfriend and settle down and have a |
| 1:20.7 | family and the first step he thinks is getting a better career because it's hard to build a real life when you're working nights and weekends. And so he wants to get out of the restaurant industry, but he worries it's too late for him. |
| 1:33.0 | I think a lot of it has to do with my lack of further education. |
| 1:38.0 | I did eventually get my associates degree, but I don't have a bachelor's degree. |
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