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FREE Resources
to help you:
1. United States of
America's primary source
on career info:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates Bureau
of Labor and Statistics
3. Organize Your Job
Search - Post a Question
etc.: www.cvtips.com
4. Starting Over After
Divorce:
www.womansdivorce.com
5. Starting Over for
Women:
www.makingbreadmagazine
.com
6. Self Improvement:
www.selfgrowth.com.
7. Job Postings, Resume
Advice and Resources:
www.careerbuiler.com
8. Templates for: business
plans, competitive analysis,
start up costs and more:
www.score.org/business_tool
box.html
9. Federal/Sate/Local
Government jobs:
www.USAJOBS.com
to help you:
1. United States of
America's primary source
on career info:
www.onetcenter.org
2. Wage Estimates Bureau
of Labor and Statistics
3. Organize Your Job
Search - Post a Question
etc.: www.cvtips.com
4. Starting Over After
Divorce:
www.womansdivorce.com
5. Starting Over for
Women:
www.makingbreadmagazine
.com
6. Self Improvement:
www.selfgrowth.com.
7. Job Postings, Resume
Advice and Resources:
www.careerbuiler.com
8. Templates for: business
plans, competitive analysis,
start up costs and more:
www.score.org/business_tool
box.html
9. Federal/Sate/Local
Government jobs:
www.USAJOBS.com
This site is here to help you make a career change or
go back to work while keeping a healthy life balance of
priorities, family and relationships.
Whether you are an empty nester who is re-entering the workforce, an
entrepreneur who is looking for a way to network, someone who has been
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goals the FREE worksheets, articles and advice here will help you get to a
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Gannon's work as a
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executive director,
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hospital foundation
president and CEO are
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"Starting Over Without
Starting at the Bottom."
Get Mary Lee's FREE
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Wheel of Fortune
Spin on Balance" by
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Gannon's work as a
newspaper reporter,
trade association
executive director,
public relations
consultant,
entrepreneur, and
hospital foundation
president and CEO are
the basis for her free
e-newsletter with tips on
"Starting Over Without
Starting at the Bottom."
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"Worksheets and
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FREE resources on
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* Starting over in
their career or
personal life
* Empty nesters
* Entrepreneurs
* Networking
* Job Seekers
* Starting all over
again
* Going through a
divorce
* Looking for career
opportunities
* Seeking FREE
career advice and
education
* Finding mentors
* Setting new life
goals
To chart your road
map to success
click here for FREE
"Worksheets and
Articles."
Articles
Oops, I've Made a Mistake - Now What?
I was asked to present to high school students as part of a program entitled
“Pittsburghers That Make a Difference.” My topic was Goal Setting. When
first asked to do this all I could think about was how boring a topic this would
be to teenagers. It was even boring to me. And then when I found out that
one of the other presenters was the veterinarian from the National Aviary
who was bringing the Froot Loops bird I knew I was in trouble. So I decided
to focus my talk on something kids and many adults tend not to think about –
failure.
What happens when you set a goal, are working toward it and realize the
goal was a mistake?
Forty-four percent of college graduates change their major between the
second semester of their freshman year and graduation day. Eighty-three
percent of the 2001 graduating class of Duke University were working for a
different organization within five years of graduation and 43 % had changed
careers at least once.
Setting goals and readjusting them is an ongoing part of life.
Remember two things with respect to setting goals:
#1. Begin with the end in mind – Know where you ultimately want to be.
#2. It is important to fail early – Don’t be afraid to take calculated risks.
If you have made a bad career choice, define your transferable skills and
start researching other opportunities. If you are in school and majoring in
something you feel will ultimately not make you happy, diversify your course
selection and change majors or minor is something new if it is too close to
graduation.
Your job, your ongoing education, your relationships, your outside activities –
they are like a boat at a dock. You will get one. You will get in it. Your boat
will start to pull away from the pier. If you have a set of oars, you will drive the
boat. If you don’t the boat will drive you. You probably won’t sink – unless
there is a terrible storm where faith and self worth will come strongly into
play. But you will more likely find yourself in the same inlet circling the same
waters over and over never being able to pull out of the harbor and into the
sea toward a destination.
Think about people whom you have heard repeatedly say, “I hate my job.”
They haven’t taken hold of the oars.
Goals are specific, measurable and time framed. “I am trying” is not a goal.
“I will do it within this amount of time” is.
So ask yourself, if circling the inlet is good enough for you? Who is driving
your boat?
In the words of Christopher Columbus, “You can never cross the ocean
unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Get Mary Lee’s new FREE e-book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune Spin on
Balance."
For the FREE Articles: “Find a Mentor” and “How to Make a Career Change in
a Challenged Economy” go to: www.startingovernow.
com/WorksheetsandArticles.html
Mary Lee Gannon went from being a stay-at-home mother with four children
to divorce, poverty and then on to become a newspaper reporter, trade
association executive director, public relations consultant, and foundation
president and CEO. View Mary Lee’s free career tips, worksheets and Blog
on her website at www.startingovernow.com. Contact Mary Lee at
info@startingovernow.com.
I was asked to present to high school students as part of a program entitled
“Pittsburghers That Make a Difference.” My topic was Goal Setting. When
first asked to do this all I could think about was how boring a topic this would
be to teenagers. It was even boring to me. And then when I found out that
one of the other presenters was the veterinarian from the National Aviary
who was bringing the Froot Loops bird I knew I was in trouble. So I decided
to focus my talk on something kids and many adults tend not to think about –
failure.
What happens when you set a goal, are working toward it and realize the
goal was a mistake?
Forty-four percent of college graduates change their major between the
second semester of their freshman year and graduation day. Eighty-three
percent of the 2001 graduating class of Duke University were working for a
different organization within five years of graduation and 43 % had changed
careers at least once.
Setting goals and readjusting them is an ongoing part of life.
Remember two things with respect to setting goals:
#1. Begin with the end in mind – Know where you ultimately want to be.
#2. It is important to fail early – Don’t be afraid to take calculated risks.
If you have made a bad career choice, define your transferable skills and
start researching other opportunities. If you are in school and majoring in
something you feel will ultimately not make you happy, diversify your course
selection and change majors or minor is something new if it is too close to
graduation.
Your job, your ongoing education, your relationships, your outside activities –
they are like a boat at a dock. You will get one. You will get in it. Your boat
will start to pull away from the pier. If you have a set of oars, you will drive the
boat. If you don’t the boat will drive you. You probably won’t sink – unless
there is a terrible storm where faith and self worth will come strongly into
play. But you will more likely find yourself in the same inlet circling the same
waters over and over never being able to pull out of the harbor and into the
sea toward a destination.
Think about people whom you have heard repeatedly say, “I hate my job.”
They haven’t taken hold of the oars.
Goals are specific, measurable and time framed. “I am trying” is not a goal.
“I will do it within this amount of time” is.
So ask yourself, if circling the inlet is good enough for you? Who is driving
your boat?
In the words of Christopher Columbus, “You can never cross the ocean
unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
Get Mary Lee’s new FREE e-book “Make Your Wheel of Fortune Spin on
Balance."
For the FREE Articles: “Find a Mentor” and “How to Make a Career Change in
a Challenged Economy” go to: www.startingovernow.
com/WorksheetsandArticles.html
Mary Lee Gannon went from being a stay-at-home mother with four children
to divorce, poverty and then on to become a newspaper reporter, trade
association executive director, public relations consultant, and foundation
president and CEO. View Mary Lee’s free career tips, worksheets and Blog
on her website at www.startingovernow.com. Contact Mary Lee at
info@startingovernow.com.
Mary Lee's
Book: Mary Lee's
book on "Starting Over"
will be released by New
Horizon Press in
November. Look for it in
bookstores then!
Book: Mary Lee's
book on "Starting Over"
will be released by New
Horizon Press in
November. Look for it in
bookstores then!