Careers: De-Bunking The “Follow Your Bliss” Myth

De-Bunking The “Follow Your Bliss” Myth

Written by Patricia Soldati

I don’t know about you… but I’m pretty tired of hearing about how you can “follow your dream” in three or four easy steps. I’ve seen plenty of people leap before they sufficiently looked --and end up dissatisfied or broke, or both. I’ve also had clients come to me after reading a hot, new book or attending a workshop. And they still can’t figure out what it is they want to do for a living.

Of course not! You can’t think your way to a new career – or, at least you can’t 99% of repparttar time.

The truth is that career change is no walk in repparttar 107009 park. It takes focus, a smart strategy and guts.

Focus Anyone can start their career change effort with vigor. But keeping your fires burning for repparttar 107010 duration of your journey is another story. Given repparttar 107011 roadblocks and repparttar 107012 absence of any hard deadlines, it’s just repparttar 107013 kind of “priority” that can fall through repparttar 107014 cracks of your busy life.

The key is to create an environment of accountability. Here are four ways to do this:

1.Schedule your career change activities into your weekly calendar. As Steven Covey would say, make it a “big rock” priority. 2.Register for a class or workshop that keeps you engaged and focused for an extended period of time. 3.Career change can’t be done in a vacuum. Work with a mentor or coach who has a good business head and market perspective. 4.Know exactly what you hope to gain from your career change. A clear and compelling personal benefit is your secret weapon to hanging in there for repparttar 107015 duration of your journey.

A Smart Strategy The old adage “look before you leap” is perfect advice for prospective career-changers. Keep your day job and let your paycheck enable you to take all repparttar 107016 time you need to discover new work options and test them out. Once you are clear that a particular path is right for you – craft a good plan to get there. At a minimum, your plan will include new training requirements and timing, building a new network, and a communications strategy for leaving your current employer.

Why Culinary Education

Written by Emma White

If you are thinking about a career in culinary arts then studying in a culinary school is a must. You may be a great cook but you will never become expert learning culinary arts yourself. Farther taking up a job as a chef in a good restaurant demands a professional qualification, which comes only after attending a regular culinary school.

There are many myth surrounding culinary arts. For example people say culinary is an art and art cannot be taught. This is not true. First culinary is not just an art, its science too. You must know about repparttar ingredients you are using while cooking. You should also have through knowledge of repparttar 107008 contents of repparttar 107009 ingredients or additives you use to cook food. It helps you to be an informed chef.

Another myth is that culinary education is very costly. You see, any education is costly. Culinary is not an exception. But if you compare, a Bachelor of Engineering Degree is much more costly then a diploma/degree in culinary.

One of repparttar 107010 worst myths is that chefs live a great life - full of glamor and no work. This is not at all true. Most of a chef's time is spent in kitchen with hot oils and burning temperatures.

If you love to cook - culinary school should be your destination. It is never too early for you to think about repparttar 107011 opportunities that will come along after culinary training. America need good chef - you can be one of them.

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