A good place to start could be in areas you have delved in past. If you engaged briefly in a particular project that you thoroughly enjoyed, then you have a skill and experience that can be leveraged into an entirely new career.

You can also avail yourself of many career assessment programs and free personality tests found on Internet. One such assessment tool is MAPP. It’s free and takes about fifteen minutes to complete. The results are quite revealing. Their website is http://www.assessment.com

Many people have gone through career transitions. These are successful people, happy with their new careers, and enjoying and loving what they are doing. They made a choice to become a career builder and make a better life for themselves. So can you.

Give yourself gift of a career you can get enthusiastic about which utilizes your special talents and unique gifts. Follow your passion; you will thank yourself over and over again.

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Retirement implies you are no longer working. You’ve given up treadmill described above for a villa somewhere off coast of Spain. Sounds great, doesn’t it?! Then why would I not recommend retirement? The reason is simple: People need to do creative things. They need to be involved and express their talents and capabilities to fullest. It’s not only a way of feeling useful or deriving an income; it’s more importantly a requirement for sanity and longevity. Numerous studies corroborate this.

Does this mean you shouldn’t retire? Do you have to remain on treadmill until you die? Not exactly. You can get out of "rat race" without retiring. Applying a new dimension to word, retire, it no longer implies that you stop working; rather, you are no longer working for someone else. You can still have that villa, only now you can also be engaged in creating and expressing your talents. For many retirees, it means establishing and marketing their hobbies. For many others, it’s about starting their own consulting business.

The important thing to consider as you approach retirement age is that over years you have brought a lot to table and have given of yourself in many, many ways. You can now take those same talents and begin to look at ways you can continue to apply them in a self-employed capacity. The rewards will be great. You’ll be off treadmill, you’ll stay sane, you’ll live longer, and that villa off coast of Spain just got a new owner, you.

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