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Over half of all teachers leave their jobs because of job dissatisfaction and a desire to change careers (USDOE). If you no longer want to get paid less for working long hours in a stressful job, don’t despair! Employers are looking for candidates just like you; people with excellent communication skills that work well in a team setting, are highly organized, have the ability to learn and progress in the job, and carry themselves with a professional demeanor.

Consider how important your ability to communicate on a personal level and your coaching expertise is in today’s global market. These skills translate to success in many interesting and high-paying careers. On a daily basis, employees in all industries, whether in client services or IT services, share information between different groups of workers, strive to attain new skills and refine procedures, and reach for excellence.

In addition, applying these skills in a company or organization that recognizes and rewards them translates to high job satisfaction. The key is to take it step-by-step. Here is a great site I recently visited online that has a comprehensive step-by-step outline to get you started!

http://www.quintcareers.com/career_change.html

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“Stick to the knitting – stay with the business that you know.” – Tom Peters and Robert Waterman

Career paths do not always lead us to exactly where we want to go. Many of us take small detours (intended or not) and later in life very often wind up in a career that is very different from what we set out to do. Early in my career I opted to take a huge detour, which was more like an off ramp. Thinking that I always wanted to be a programmer (my education is Accounting and Finance), I took a job that would allow me to get my “foot in the door”. I quickly learned (the hard way) that, not only wasn’t I qualified to be a programmer, I was not very good at it. The “off ramp” scenario can sometimes be “career-threatening” and is very different from the occasional (and somewhat common) detour.