6/22/2023 0 Comments Does dreams come true![]() ![]() I spoke to people in my field who told me I was too old to get started and should have begun a decade prior. My fellow candidates were going to be younger and more qualified and hold more experience in the form of internships that I hadn’t had the opportunity for while putting myself through school. I knew that there were going to many obstacles when it came to interviewing. Letting people know my background and in what direction I was heading paid off People knew of other job openings that I might be interested in and offered suggestions for other people to connect with.īreaking into my desired field of journalism with almost no experience in it was not going to be easy. In fact, every job I’ve gotten since I moved has been brought to my attention by someone I knew or met while networking. While it may seem counterproductive and at times discouraging to pursue jobs and opportunities in the complete opposite direction of the one I wanted to go in, the networking opportunities that these different jobs provided were incredibly valuable. That job morphed into holding four unrelated jobs at once while I interviewed for what I did want. It was retail at Christmastime on Fifth Avenue. When I got settled and finally did get a job, it wasn’t my dream job doing something I loved in a trendy, shiny office overlooking Manhattan and the water like you see in movies. ![]() I got a part-time job to earn a bit more money, and I sold a lot of things I no longer wanted or used, which both worked well to pad my savings and left me with less to pack. While the last part seemed impossible, it was the most important item on my pre-moving list. Sign up here to get top career advice delivered straight to your inbox every week. Subscribe To The Forbes Careers Newsletter When faced with such an obstacle I broke the task down into a manageable list of individual actions, noting what needed to happen each step of the way. Switching careers and moving to a new city are daunting on their own, but together they required coordination. That’s not to say that I didn’t plan before taking what many considered a risky leap. When it got hard or I felt like giving up, I would remind myself why I was doing what I was doing: I wasn’t happy where I was and this was the only way for things to be different. Plan B, and therefore failure, was not going to be an option for me.īy not allowing myself to even consider the possibility that there could be other options, I was able to focus all of my energy on making the plan I had chosen work. I had my heart set on moving to New York, New York, and nothing could deter me from that. ![]() Claire Cook wrote in her novel Seven Year Switch, “If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you’re in Japan.” People may find comfort in the idea that there are other options, that if their first attempt at something doesn’t work they can try something different, but thinking like that caused me dismay. ![]()
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