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Career Exploration in your 40's...We're just getting started

Recently, I was asked a great question while speaking to a potential participant of our "Inside Job, 8 Secrets to Loving Your Work and Thriving" seminar. Why should he, a 41 year old man with a lifetime of experience, invest his time, money and energy in career exploration? “Isn’t that process for college graduates?”

“Not anymore” I replied. In fact, midlife is an ideal time to explore career opportunities. For many of us 40 (and 50+)year olds career exploration wasn’t an option in our 20‘s. Cultural expectations at that early age were often focused on making money and creating families. At 17 you were supposed to know the work you were going to do for the rest of your life. 

Well, our lives are lasting a lot longer now making it harder to live up to that "one job/career for life" mindset. In fact for many of us, we're just getting started. Our 40's are often just the beginning of self-discovery and the search for deeper meaning. So often I hear from our clients "I want to make a difference. I want to help heal the world and I want to have a good time doing it."  

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Where to explore? How to investigate? What steps to take? These are the questions we answer for those of who are Career Curious. 

Career Transition Experts and bestselling authors Sherry Platt Berman and Julie Gleeson, co-founders of the Career Wisdom Institute, Inc begin to answer those questions with our one day seminar "Inside Job, 8 Secrets To Loving Your Work and Thriving". This one-day event introduces new thinking and paradigms for career exploration. 

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Join us March 22nd in Moraga or April 4th in Petaluma from 9:30 to 4:30. We are offering a discounted rate of $99 for Patch Readers. For more information go to http://careerwisdominstitute.com/courses-and-services/upcoming-events/. Contact Julie@careerwisdominstitute.com to receive your discounted rate.

We are not your children’s college career counselors. One day with us will revolutionize the way you think, feel and experience work...forever.


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