With the economy sputtering along, you may doubt whether this is a good time for a baby boomer to make a career change. However, if you think it through and plan carefully this could be the right time for you to make that important career move.
Kerry Hannon, author of “What’s Next? Follow Your Passion and Find Your Dream Job,” offers these 10 steps, which she says are essential to launch a new career:
- Identify your skills and talents.
- Find your passion.
- Set a flexible time frame.
- Network.
- Apprentice or volunteer.
- One step at a time.
- Get training.
- Shape-up spiritually and physically.
- Get financially fit.
- Downsize.
