Top 10 Excuses for not Making a Dramatic Career Change to your Dream Job
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It’s time for a dramatic career change to your dream job! Perhaps you have a hard time getting out of bed on the days that you have to go to work. If you are not inspired by your job, if you are not learning something new and exciting every day, you must make the great escape from your job before you become brain dead — no excuses. As Mark Twain wisely pointed out, “1000 excuses and no good reasons.”
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Confucius, who had much stronger credentials than I will ever have, shared his thoughts on the subject of career change by remarking, "Find a calling you love and you will never work a day in your life." Unfortunately, few people ever find work that they truly love.
Working at your dream job may sound great, but nevertheless, too good to be true. Perhaps you need some good excuses — besides the ones you already have — to convince yourself that you can’t make the much needed career change to your dream job.
Luckily for you, I can help. I used to be an expert at making excuses and even earned my Masters in Excuse Making. Here are a few gems that even David Letterman would like:
- Top 10 Excuses NOT to Pursue Your Dream Job
1. I don’t believe people can work at a dream job and make a good living at it unless they are offspring of Edison or Einstein.
2. I once had a nosebleed and I am afraid of getting more if I don’t work at a real job.
3. George W. Bush would think I was unpatriotic if I pursue a dream career that is not part of corporate America.
4. Finding a dream job that I love may be too relaxing — I think I feel more comfortable tense.
5. I am three-times divorced and I estimate that I have at least twelve kids.
6. I prefer to live in the past because most of my career life has been spent there.
7. I have arthritis, and although I know people with much more serious disabilities have been extraordinarily successful in dream careers, I don’t think they know what it is like to have arthritis.
8. Although my present job is really boring, I kind of like it — I may actually be addicted to boredom.
9. My dog died and I need to get another one real fast.
10. I am much too afraid of becoming a member of a better class of people.
All right, this is more than enough. You may find some of the above excuses useful for explaining some of your other shortcomings in life, particularly when you don’t want to take responsibility for having created these shortcomings.
My point is best made by the Jewish proverb: “If you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.”
Let’s be honest. All of us are good at justifying why we haven’t been more successful in following our career dreams. At one time, I likely did it a few thousand times myself.
Alas, excuses don’t bring results — we only hurt ourselves with excuses. Fact is, virtually all excuse-makers progress at the same speed just like all procrastinators wait at the same speed. Moreover, there is no time like the present to use a good excuse to postpone what is important, but appears somewhat difficult to do.
If you are not inspired by your job — if you are not learning something new and exciting every day — you must escape your job before you become brain dead. No excuses — as Mark Twain wisely pointed out, “1000 excuses and no good reasons.”
Excuses are convenient, but as always, there is a downside to anything convenient. Individuals who are not able to get rid of excuses find it virtually impossible to succeed in the long term. On the other hand, once people get rid of excuses, they can succeed at a lot more things than they think they can — including making a dramatic career change to a dream job!
Author: Ernie Zelinski
About Author:
Ernie J. Zelinski is a leading authority on the subjects of early retirement and solo-entrepreneurship.
Ernie is the author of the recently released Real Success Without a Real Job, the bestseller How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free (over 57,000 copies sold and published in 7 foreign languages), and the international bestseller The Joy of Not Working (over 200,000 copies sold and published in 17 languages).
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