Career Change?

[GregWeld]

Eric --

I wasn't really trying to give "advice"... rather... I was trying to toss out some ways of thinking... or looking at... how you'd go about a career change (the actual subject). It was more an open discussion.... while I was writing a book on the subject (lol)... and trying to get people to THINK about how they might go about this.

IT is so dang difficult. Easy to say - not easy to do. Suffering and sacrifice is not something many of us are willing to actually DO. Oh... for a week or a month maybe - but 5 years of living in a "shack" in order to start a business with the equity you once had in a very comfortable house... is a whole 'nother can of beans.

I fully understand not wanting to change the status quo.

However, like Michaels story... his town/company is dying... the cards are on the table... Do you do NOTHING? And wait for the train to hit you... or do you get off the track NOW and get started in "whatever" it is that would have a future?

If I worked for GM... or Chrysler... or an auto parts supplier to these companies -- I'd be working right now on something other than that industry. If I was a home builder... I'd now be a remodeler and I'd be trying to buy ****ty houses that are foreclosed on and fixing them up as rentals or re-sales... even if that took "partners"/"investors" ala my LLC idea...

TODD is right when he says there is an opportunity out there somewhere... but you have to look for it -- and then be willing to ACT on it. Remember something -- when the news says there's 15% unemployment -- that means what to you? To me... it means that 85% are still working... What are they doing differently than you? What industry... what job...

A quick aside ---

The other day I read where the owner of PAPA JOHNS pizza bought his old Camaro back - and paid $250K for it. He sold it years before in order to invest in his "pizza biz"... he didn't want to sell his beloved car - but did - in order to keep his pizza dream going... He now was able to pay whatever he wanted to in order to get his car back. It's a symbol to him... of the suffering he endured... that is now a huge success. GOOD FOR HIM!!

I would have just kept the old Camaro... and went to work selling shoes..

:>)