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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:
Why do people have such a difficult time talking about their careers? It’s because we tend to be embarrassed and I work so hard in my columns over the years to break through that level of embarrassment and the level of embarrassment isn’t even about being out of a job or in a job. It’s about not having the best job or not having the right job or not having a job as good as my neighbor or…there are so many ways that we kind of internalize this embarrassment and again, that is something I feel very keenly myself. I have kind of that embarrassment thing going on sometimes and I have to actively fight that and say there’s nothing to be embarrassed about. What you are going through is something that everyone goes through.
