#1 of Two Career Change Inspirational Quotes for January 1

“You never stop earning when you do what you love.”
— Asha Tyson
 

#2 of Two Career Change Inspirational Quotes for January 1

“Seek above all for a game worth playing. Such is the oracle to modern man. Having found the game, play it with intensity; play as if your life and sanity depend on it. (They do depend on it).”
— D. S. Ropp

NOTE: Adapted from Ernie Zelinski’s private collection of Career Change Inspirational Quotes
 

Bonus Career Change Inspirational Quote Relating to Money

“There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little cheaper.”
— John Ruskin

NOTE: Adapted from the Ebook The 787 Best Things Ever Said about Money by Ernie J. Zelinski 

#1 of Two Career Change Inspirational Quotes for December 31

 ”The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.”
— John Stuart Mill

 #2 of Two Career Change Inspirational Quotes for December 31

“Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you, inviting you to useful work.”
— Grenville Kleiser
 

NOTE: Adapted from Ernie Zelinski’s private collection of Career Change Inspirational Quotes

Bonus Career Change Inspirational Quote Relating to Money

“Your prosperity consciousness is not dependent on money; your flow of money isdependent upon your prosperity consciousness.”
— Louise L. Hay
 

NOTE: Adapted from the Ebook The 787 Best Things Ever Said about Money by Ernie J. Zelinski

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#1 of Two Career Change Inspirational Quotes for December 30
 

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood . . . Make big plans; aim high in hope and work.”
— Daniel Burnham
 

It’s never too late — or too early, for that matter — to make a career change, to be what you might have been. While many people aspire to a secure job in government or in a large corporation, why not think much bigger?

Indeed, it pays big time to think big. Just like every alcoholic’s wildest dream is to have a full glass of beer when the glass is empty, some people’s wildest dream is to someday work in a factory where they get regular breaks and a half-hour for lunch. In either case, this is thinking and playing small and will likely result in the least ambitious goal award, and no more.

My dream thirty years ago was to escape typical corporate life and wind up working on my own. I thought at the time that I would be confined to being a real estate salesperson or end up being a landlord. Luckily, there are many more dream jobs to which we can make a dramatic career change.

During the last two years while I worked as an engineer in what now appears to be another life altogether, I realized that the last thing I wanted to do is work in a corporation all my life. That’s why I turned down a great job offer shortly after I was fired from my last real job over twenty-five years ago.

Instead I chose two full years of unemployment. A few years later after I received an MBA, I opted for semi-retirement when I was just thirty years old and close to financial bankruptcy. In fact, my net worth at the time was minus $30,000 largely due to my student loans.

Most of my friends and ex-classmates were amazed that I would choose four to five hours a day of self-employment with no guarantee of financial compensation instead of getting a real job with a regular paycheck. They thought that I was thinking small. As it turned out, I was thinking big and they were thinking small.

Today I am prosperous enough to do things that most corporate employees aren’t. I have designed a life-style that is different from that of the masses. My leisure activities actually take priority over my work. I fit in my work in between or after my exercising, socializing, and napping.

It may have taken me a long time after I made the dramatic career change to my dream job but the cool thing is that I am working at something that offers much more freedom and is much more satisfying to me than working at a government job or in a corporation of any size. The most important thing is that I also have an overriding purpose to my vocation that I would not have by being a corporate or government worker.

In short, as 2006 draws to an end, I would suggest that you quit your corporate position or government job in 2007. Particularly if you are “organizationally averse” like I am, I would suggest that you make a major career change to a dream job or unconventional business that does not involve corporate life. 

#1 of Two Career Change Inspirational Quotes for December 29

“You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid, monotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid, and monotonous.”
— Bob Black

#2 of Two Career Change Inspirational Quotes for December 29

“I believe you are your work. Don’t trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That’s a rotten bargain.”
— Rita Mae Brown

NOTE: Adapted from Ernie Zelinski’s private collection of Career Change Inspirational Quotes
 

Bonus Career Change Inspirational Quote Relating to Money

“Ability is the poor man’s wealth.”
— Matthew Wren

NOTE: Adapted from the Ebook The 787 Best Things Ever Said about Money by Ernie J. Zelinski

#1 of Two Career Change Inspirational Quotes for December 28

“Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2 of Two Career Change Inspirational Quotes for December 28

“Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you’ll have more success than you could possibly have imagined.”
— Roger Caras
 

NOTE: Adapted from Ernie Zelinski’s private collection of Career Change Inspirational Quotes
 

Bonus Career Change Inspirational Quote Relating to Money

“It’s no trick to make a lot of money, if all you want is to make a lot of money.”
— Everett Sloane in the movie Citizen Kane

NOTE: Adapted from the Ebook The 787 Best Things Ever Said about Money by Ernie J. Zelinski
 

#1 of Two Career Change Inspirational Quotes for December 27

“The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.”
— George Eliot
 

#2 of Two Career Change Inspirational Quotes for December 27

“Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.”
— from Real Success Without a Real Job

NOTE: Adapted from Ernie Zelinski’s private collection of Career Change Inspirational Quotes
 

Bonus Career Change Inspirational Quote Relating to Money

“Money will appear when you are doing the right thing in your life.”
— Michael Phillips 

NOTE: Adapted from the Ebook The 787 Best Things Ever Said about Money by Ernie J. Zelinski

Here is Today’s Career Inspirational Quote of the Day to Help You with Your Dramatic Career Change to a Dream Job 

To be successful, the first thing to do is fall in love with your work.
— Sister Mary Lauretta

Note: This quotation is liberated from a collection of Career Inspirational Quotes at The Real Success Resource Center

It’s never too late — or too early, for that matter — to make a dramatic career change, to be what you might have been. While no dream job is perfect, there should be one that suits you much better than the conventional job you presently have — particularly if it doesn’t inspire you just thinking about it.

If you are unhappy in your current job, isn’t it time to make a dramatic career change? If you don’t jump out of bed every work day when the alarm goes off eager to do some work, you are likely not all that enthusiastic about your job.

Perhaps you complain, roll over, and contemplate whether you can get away with calling in sick for the third time this month. In this case, it is quite clear that you need to find something more challenging and satisfying.

Here’s the bottom line: The best time to pursue your dream career is twenty years ago and today!

You don’t necessarily have to move on today. Indeed, it is wise not to jump straight into something immediately. But today is the day that you should start taking steps to discover your dream job.

Business Week magazine recently surveyed 500 American business executives about their job satisfaction. Surprisingly, almost three-quarters (72 percent) were not in their dream jobs.

The first question is: What would executives rather be doing? Many, in fact, named creative professions when asked about their fantasy careers.

 Top 10 Dream Job Choices of Business Executives

·         Entertainment manager or events producer
·         Winemaker or brewmaster
·         Chef
·         Restaurateur
·         Pilot
·         Golf pro
·         Professional athlete
·         Rock star
·         Neurosurgeon
·         Bed-and-breakfast-inn owner/operator
 
Obviously, the belief that people should choose a particular career and remain it for life — especially if they spent a fortune getting trained for it — has resulted in millions of bored and dissatisfied people. This is just as true for executives as the rest of the population.

The bottom line is that most people are not working at their dream jobs and should make a career change if they ever want to get satisfaction out of their work.

Part 2 or “Career Change Principle #1 — The Best Time to Pursue Your Dream Career Is 20 Years Ago and Today” will be posted in two days.NOTE: This article compliments the material in the book Real Success Without a Real Job (The Career Book for People Too Smart to Work in Corporations).

To download the Preface and Chapter 1 of Real Success Without a Real Job (in PDF format), go to the link below:

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Time management in the corporate environment is frequently touted as the way to control time and put more of it into our lives. Classical time management doesn’t work, however, simply because it supports trying to do more and more in a limited amount of time.
 

Instead of managing time, you must transcend it. Part of the total time management experience is being able to do your own thing at your own speed. You must take control of your physical and psychic space instead of allowing the distractions of the modern world to influence your lifestyle.
 

Truth be known, the problem with using traditional time management techniques is that you will still be dedicating a lot of your effort and time into things that are unimportant. If you want a better lifestyle, you must empower yourself with dynamic time management principles instead of traditional ones. Here is a start:
 

Ten Magical Ways to Put More Time into Your Life