Everyone is talking or considering at least once the month a 'career switch' nowadays. As a travel blogger, I read regularly successful stories of people that gave up their corporate life, packed a small luggage and decided to go around the world. The main incentive is to discover yourself, enjoy the beautiful world and end up the slavery of a 9 to 5 office work, regardless hot much 0s you have in your account.
Theoretically, I cannot agree more. I am also one of those who after more than 15 years of carefully planned career - I started to see my 'future' since the last years of high-school and carefully worked my way through it - decided that freelance writing work from home and more travel - after a lot of travels before - is what makes me happy and accomplished.
My career switch was not tremendously dramatic, compared to those who decided to become writers after a career on the financial markets or engineering. After I've read the diary of Virginia Woolf at 16, I knew that I want to spend the rest of my life writing. It took me some time till I discovered what I really wanted to write about, but I did not waste any moment of my life to learn more and read even more. And to travel.
After a master degree and a PhD, a short career in consulting and PR and even diplomacy, that helped to get skills extremely useful for my travel writing projects, I gave up the business life and for one year I did nothing else but reading for improving my English skills and imagination. Learning to breath and realize what are my real priorities was not easy, but I wanted to succeed and this is what it happened. Doing those things that I never had the time to do before as I was always busy, working to meet deadlines or simply killing time waiting till a messy boss is reading the 100th mail on the same topic sent in less than 24 hours.
When reading the beautiful success stories about the smooth career switch, one can really dream that everything can be done within a matter of months or even weeks. But, believe me, especially if you want to jump from a profession to another, the first positive signs can be seen only after 2 full years of intensive work. Whatever tempting leaving your cubicle now may be, be sure that you don't jump into the abyss of poverty and financial and social limitations. As long as you have some savings and some ideas for a limited amount of time of work daily, you can start planning carefully your next steps.
I will tell you a little secret: as long as you see how things are put into motion and your work is appreciated and you feel deeply happy and grateful for your decision, nothing can stop you to continue doing better and better. You should never forget though to be genuine and work hard. Career switch doesn't mean retiring, but working double to achieve your real potential.
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