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This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's tip is to run to something, not from something.

If you are pondering making a big switch in life, it is often more motivating to have something you actually do want to do,

rather than just trying to get away from something

you don't. I love hearing from people who are thinking about switching careers. There are often

great ways to explore new options, and starting something new can be a good way to become more

interested in life.

I can usually recommend ways to fit training and searching into even a busy schedule.

That said, I have noticed that career switchers come in different flavors.

Some people have identified something they are very excited about. They may be

reasonably happy in their current jobs. It's just that there is something they would like to do more.

However, there are others whose career-switching conversations center more on how miserable they are in their current work.

They are looking to flee their current situations, and that is fine. I don't want people to be

miserable. But sometimes folks then idealize some other profession as just being incredibly different from what they are currently doing.

The logic goes that if they are unhappy now, doing something very different, should make them happy.

So now they need to go back to school for two years or more to do that.

And I am thinking, whoa, let's slow down.

No profession is perfect. Even if you work for a nonprofit that is saving the world, you can still

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