Chapter 1

I really did read it! I promise not to be so tardy on future chapters. What I really liked about this chapter is that it helps you to define what you are trying to do. Am I looking for a new career? A similar career? Am I looking to change my life? I found that I am engaging in the life-changing job search. I understand, and am now more comfortable with the fact, that this may take a relatively long time to do. The job search that I am doing is a process, not just a job search. I really want to make sure that before I take the leap to a new career that I am prepared, I know what I am getting into, and that I am choosing a new career because I want to rather than that I just don't want to do what I am now. I am willing to make this life change in career steps as well. For example, I am an administrator for a retirement company. My next step to a drastic career change may be something like an administrator in a non-profit agency, then my ending point would be a social service worker in a non-profit agency. The important thing for me to begin doing is defining my skill set and matching it to my next step.

In addition to this, I would like to expand my contacts to include more social service workers. I think that gaining my licensure will assist me in this, as I will then be able to become a member of professional organizations and take part in more seminars, etc. Reading this book has really helped to calm my anxiety, and quell that voice that screams, "what the heck are you doing with your life, lady??"