Managing the Emotional Toll of Career Transitions

Like all major changes, career changes are challenging. While there are obvious challenges such as how to market yourself and how to acquire the necessary skills, there is also a huge emotional cost involved in transitions of any kind. Since most people rely on their jobs as a livelihood, and many more as a main source of identity, changing career direction can be downright scary. Over the course of making my own radical career transitions (teacher in AmeriCorps to manager at a hedge fund, for example), I've learned some lessons in how to lessen the emotional burden of making a big change. While I'm talking specifically about career transitions here, I think these ideas could easily apply to

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