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Career Change Now? Is This Really a Good Idea?

By: Teresa Pangan, PhD, RD

 

 

If you flip on the news or scan headlines the near future is sounding bleak for the job market according to many experts out there. Thinking about a career change or reinventing yourself may sound foolish to some people. Is there a ‘right’ time to be planning a career change?

For me the answer was go for it!! I undertook a professional career change in my life when things were very tumultuous.

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Stories of Other Professionals Who Made a Career Change

Read the full stories of courageous professionals who looked at their lives and asked themselves – is this what I want to do when I grow up?

They went on to leaving behind what they were doing into new territory, several had to go back to school after being out in the workforce many years and at the same time support a spouse or family.

Thank you to these individuals who shared their stories with us.

Alison Barkman, MS, RD

Cynthia Ann Chandler, MS, RD, LD, CDM

Linda S. Eck Mills, MBA, RD, LDN, FADA

Aaron Flores, RD

Maria Pari-Keener, MS, RD, CDN

Diane Quagliani, MBA, RD, LDN

Franziska Spritzler, RD

Elizabeth A. Tapp, MS, CLT

Elizabeth M. Ward, MS, RD

Penny L. Wilson, RD, LD
 
 
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