Transfer Your Skills

Quite some time ago I suggested that some of you might want to redirect your careers. It is becoming more and more obvious that the market for traditional computer programmers, financial analysts, research chemists, manufacturing plant managers, banking managers, etc. might never return to where it once was. Does this mean you are out of luck and destined to working minimum wage jobs? I don't think so!

Take some time to look around you paying special attention to jobs that might be able to take advantage of some of your skills. Chat with people in fields that interest you to learn about their backgrounds and those of their colleagues. Find a career coach to sound you out and see if they could help identify some new paths. Wander around your local area and dig deep online. Find something that interests you and figure out how to transfer your own personal skills inventory into that field!