Article: Look inward can help calculate career change

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Look inward can help calculate career change

By MARGO FREY

Monday, April 12, 2004

Do you think you're in the wrong career?

Do you want to chuck it all and find something with personal meaning? Or something that's fun? Or something that's wildly exciting?

What's holding you back? Are you waiting for exactly the right career to jump out at you?

Do you spend a lot of time reading employment ads and career books? Maybe you're looking in all the wrong places and in the wrong order.

To find out what you really want to do, you need to take a good hard look at yourself first. Then you can explore other careers to find a satisfying option that fits who you are.

Parker J. Palmer said it ...

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