‘Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour.’ ~  Mark Twain.  

MICHAEL WALSH. The clearest sign of maturity and wisdom is knowing when to change a job that you have outgrown before your occupation destructively changes you.

Throughout my life, I have reluctantly walked out on jobs. I took the door not because I no longer liked what I was doing but simply because they were no longer in harmony with my improved or declining abilities.

A new job is your pension

In other words, I have outgrown jobs just as I matured out of kindergarten, school and college. I moved on, sometimes reluctantly but always wisely and on every occasion with positive results as my reward.

Sure, a job is for life: many lives, and because I changed jobs, I have lived a score or more lives.

God gave you a brain, so use it

God gave you a brain and hopefully sufficient wisdom to know when it is time to mature. In my opinion, anyone who stays in the same job for life is a vegetable.

This is like reading only one book or seeing one film; it is stagnation and torpor, and it is woefully unproductive and soul-destroying.

Be like the farmer

Every farmer knows that he must never plant the same seeds in the same soil each year. Furthermore, the farmer periodically leaves fields unplanted so that they rest and recover.

Live many lives

You can live many lives by moving to jobs that are more in keeping with your developing age, your growing experience and your increased abilities.

Many a waitress has moved into restaurant or hotel management and even business ownership; I have seen it time after time: respect.

Creating a new career has never been easier

I have never seen success or job satisfaction by anyone who labored at the same job from womb to tomb; but many do so.

On the other hand, I have learned of countless success stories of people of all ages, even at retirement age, learning new skills and being amply rewarded in pay and job satisfaction.

Sure, it takes guts

It took courage to leave school and enter higher education. It took spine and determination to step into the unknown and enter a workplace of a myriad of unfamiliar challenges.

Don’t Retire. Get a Life

For many, even retirement is so much a challenge that they cannot give up work.

But why do so? I retired in between writing and publishing over 60 books and thousands of media columns; I created and succeeded with several businesses. I was far from alone.

Thanks to the internet

Thanks to rapid advances in technology such as the onset of Artificial intelligence, people, even late in life, are learning new skills – online.

Essential

Never choose a job for the money, or it sounds like fun, because it offers security, there is a vacancy or because it is something you are used to.

First, be honest with yourself. We are all different, so after self-analysis, choose a new career that demands skills you are naturally good at. Then go for it. Let readers know what you think

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