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A clip from this longer presentation — Douglas E. Welch presents “Transition as the New Normal” to OPEN (Outstanding Professionals Employment Network) Ventura County in Simi Valley, CA on February 27 2015.
Also mentioned in this talk is “Career Compass: Finding Your Career North”, an Amazon Kindle booklet
Transcript:
When we are in a job, most of us simply stop thinking about the job. “I have a job. I don’t need to worry about that anymore. I have that level of stability. Whew! I’m done” And I want to tell you that is probably not the best take. I counsel people that you’re always looking for the next great job. Even if you think you have a great job, there are things, outside your control, which can suddenly take that job away from you. So, you should always be looking for the next, great opportunity. That’s a phrase I use a lot — opportunity, because there are so many opportunities that walk into our lives on a daily basis that we simply ignore. I have an entire talk I give on how to accept and recognize opportunity into your life and it’s because people often, when presented with opportunity — that “F” word pops up again, that Fear word, “It’s too much! I can’t do that. It’s a whole different industry and a whole different job and…” and we simply shut it down. You don’t want to do that.
