5 Huge Screwups Career Changers Make
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
When I graduated from college, I wanted to be a lawyer. I wanted to become one because I used to watch the old TV show, “Perry Mason,” and was able to figure out the murderer every week for years on end. I also noticed that Mason only took two checks — one was from a little old lady whom he saved from a death sentence and she paid him something like $25. The other check he took made his eyes light up when he read it. “Thank you very much,” he proclaimed. That was why I was interested in being a lawyer.
I never spoke to a lawyer about what it was like to be one. I didn’t research the schools where I could get my degree. I wanted to be Raymond Burr in “Perry Mason.”
As I speak to career changers, I find many have their version of my immature reasons for wanting to change to their new profession. One recently told me they were interested because of a movie they saw. Like I said, not very different than my thinking.
So here are a few of the mistakes career changers make when they proclaim their desire to change careers.
- Like me, you have never spoken with anyone about what it is…
