How to explore new careers (without quitting your day job)

Ever wonder what it would be like to spend your 40+ hours a week working somewhere else? If so, you’re in good company. In the India alone, 55% of people aren’t happy with their current job. We’ve heard the success stories of people who quit their day job and found something better. Maybe they went back to school, moved to another location, or even started their own business. We admire their tenacity because we too would love to drop our lives and start afresh. Then reality kicks in. Many of us can’t take the financial risk of quitting our jobs. Our children need a roof over their heads, our house payments keep coming, and our obligations keep us rooted in our current communities. We dream about changing jobs, but looking at our lives, it appears impossible to follow in our career heroes’ footsteps.

Fortunately for us, exploring new career opportunities doesn’t mean you have quit your day job tomorrow. There are more subtle ways of getting where you want to be. Consider these simple ways to start pursuing a new career:

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Really helpful tips. I found my current job by doing many of the things you mentioned as I was doing another full time job I wanted to get out of.

One thing that helped me make the change was being consistent. I had to put in alerts and search for jobs every week. I needed to apply for them consistently. When interviews came through I had to get creative to find ways to attend them.

It was really hard work finding a job while working full time, but I couldn’t have made a better decision.

There are directions you can go in that are not the standard 9-5 job, and I think that these would suit a lot of people better. As I understand it, a lot of people hate jobs where they see no significant results from their work, and working for a large corporation is going to give exactly this feeling.

So keep your day job, but look to diversify in your spare time into other forms of money earning. I wrote a recent post on the subject of passive income, and this can be a good way to divorce a good income from long working hours.

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