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About Your Career Change Advisor
Hi! My name is Paul and I am 47 year old guy, married with three children, residing in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. My own struggle for pursuing a perfect career inspired me, career change advisor, to build this website. I have always had good positions and responsibilities with my employers, but when approaching my late thirty I began to find it difficult to enjoy my job and badly wanted a new career. Unfortunately, for similar reasons that are often used by aspiring career changers, I did take no action until I was at my early forty. The midlife career change idea didn't make sense to my family and friends, though. How a person could want a new career while enjoying a good career and a generous financial reward? I had to face the situation. I was expected to stay at the job I didn't like. Should I keep the job? Or, should I find another job? In my opinion, these questions were not the right questions. I've never particularly
liked being employed. The job did help finance my needs and lifestyle. However, it
didn't solve my fundamental problem. Most people didn't even realize I had to
force myself to go to work each and every morning. Even if I told them they'd advise me to keep the job so I didn't tell
them the true story. My Career Change JourneyEarly in 2002 I talked to both myself and my wife that I needed a way out. Using many career assessment tools I found that my passion was all about entrepreneurship. In fact, it revealed my admiration to the big name of entrepreneurs and their unique personalities. Another thought that influenced me was the idea of "knowledge worker" of Peter Drucker, who is probably the greatest management guru of the 20th century. I wasn't sure when he predicted that knowledge workers would become a trend. But what inspired me was the knowledge workers could work anytime and anywhere with no time and no space boundaries. The idea of pursuing an entrepreneur career and having the lifestyle of a knowledge worker was my starting point. This was not an easy discovery as for years I hadn't realized my own strengths. It was actually an "eureka" moment when I had almost given up and decided to stay with my last job. In November 2002 I began searching for a side business to start. Since I had to work long and unpredictable working hours, I scheduled my weekend for writing a business plan draft. I called it a draft because I actually had no idea about the business to start. After learning from various resources finally I got an online business idea, which I could pursue as a part-time business. It met my ultimate career objective because the internet was and is still the right medium as well as the perfect place for knowledge workers. Even though I knew nothing about online business
I started my online career while I was
still employed. In December 2005, when my online income reached my monthly
income target and I had sufficient savings to cover more than twelve months of
my family's monthly expenses, I quitted my executive position. Is a Midlife Career Change for You?There are some misconceptions when it comes to changing careers at midlife. That's why I created this site. Many people are out there right now staying in a job they didn't like because they think that career change is close to impossible. No doubt, career change can be a tough and stressful experience if you aren't well prepared. But it is possible and it's something that you can do successfully if you get the right guidance or find the right model that you can follow. There are many ways that lead you to your dream career. There is a high risk way, such as enrolling in a higher education and using the new knowledge and skills for pursuing a new career direction. Alternatively, you can also seek a lower risk avenue by taking a part time job or a side business and then probing whether or not the new career is for you. Which way is right for you? I don't know about you but I personally chose the low risk one. Even though I really liked the challenge of switching to a new field I wanted to minimize its risks, especially the financial risks. Remember, if you are over forty or even over
fifty you don't have to get trapped in a job that you don't like because a
midlife career change is doable. Just don't quit your job before you lay the
foundation for your dream career. Take one small step every day instead and
slowly but sure you
will not even realize that you get your perfect career. About This SiteI know you came here to learn how to find an ideal career or make a career change, but I decided to add this section because I get a lot of questions about why I give away so much information for free. Ever since I discovered why I struggled with my career change pursuit, I said to myself I would build a website to educate others. I would share all I know about how to make a mid-life career change.
I used a web host called SBI or Site Build It. It caters to beginners; however, if you're an experienced web developer it will help increase your productivity. I knew this tool from Make Your Site Sell e-book (last time I bought it for $17 but now it's free) and kept hearing the buzz surrounding it so I decided to try it out. With the help of SBI you could focus on developing your business. No need to worry about html language, web design and other programming issues. You'll be provided with an easy to follow action guide, various web template as well as how to make a little cash just from the beginning. If I give away so much information for free what kind of reward do I take? SBI teaches me how to earn money with Google Adsense and many affiliate programs. The reward comes back to me through these affiliations. These affiliations can easily cover the cost to maintain this website, and amazingly it actually returns a nice profit. Did you find this site via a search engine? Well, that's what SBI helps me with. It guided me to build pages that ranks high in the major search engines so I can get as much as free visitors as possible. This video tour shows you the whole concept and how it works. SBI also taught me on how to create a profitable business in an easy step by
step tutorial. Its system has proven to work well because SBI sites are among
the top 1% of the most high traffic sites on the internet. Hundreds of
successful SBI sites act like a stamp of guarantee that with SBI system you can
have similar successful results. An Amazing Success StoryElad is one of my favorite Site Build It! stories because I modeled him as an infopreneur. He bought SBI! and created a site based on his hobby and began earning $2,000 per month after only six months. Elad was completely new to everything related to site building. I love to tell my friends and family about him and his online success. He is a prove that you don't have to have website building experience to achieve success with SBI!. Below is his inspiring video... My Career Change AdviceAre you still not sure whether your new career is worth to pursue? If you have got some spare time you should try SBI! -- I wouldn't recommend it if I didn't use and find success with it. Start creating a simple website with a topic that is closely related to your personal interest, hobbies or passions with SBI!. For example, your hobby and your career relate to gardening you'll be closer to your best career if you build a useful, informative site about gardening. Be ready to find a small success by getting extra income while doing what you like and adding a real experience into your career change resume. But that's not all, you can stick to your existing job until you replace your day job income. And believe me; your job-related stress level will be reduced by the new toy you play with. SBI! is totally risk free because you get a FULL refund if it's not for you. They can honor that kind of guarantee because they are confident they've got an outstanding product and the success stories like mine to back it up.
Try SBI when you get some time
and be ready to get your ideal career.
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