It took nearly losing my life in a global pandemic to realize I hate my career. As soon as this is over I’m making a career change. Anyone with me? What are you looking to shift to?

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Don’t laugh at the title but the book ‘What Color is Your Parachute’ has really good exercises for figuring out career transitions and stuff.

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I’d make a change if I had something to pivot to, but right now I have no idea what that would be.

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I want to do this so bad but I have no idea what I want to do so I’m in a bit of a pickle

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Want to, but have zero clue what to do next. Anybody have any resources they like for inspiration?

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Do it, and never look back. Where are you planning to go?

No clue yet, gotta do some soul searching. I’m going to use my former commute time to figure shit out, then ID some target companies, etc.

I heard Bob Ross was a CCO before he made it to the big show.

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