A career pivoting journey: transitioning from retail buyer to content writer - Valerie Mekki
Update: 2021-10-29
Description
On this week’s episode, we have Valerie Mekki who used to be a retail buyer and product developer for major fashion brands for over 18 years and now she is a content writer and loves it!
In this interview, Valerie fascinatingly shares her career pivots including becoming an entrepreneur, returning to a 9-5 and a lot more! We discuss:
- The false security of job security
- How accreditations and side projects can really help in your career transitions
- The mindset to handle your ego being crushed when working more junior roles in a new career
- How to deal with tough times during your career transition
- Practical ways to make money from your years or decades of previous career experience
- A golden mindset trick to becoming prolific in sharing what you do on social media
- How to restore balance during your transition so you don't burn out
Resources:
- Check out Valerie’s amazing blog about a career change for mid-life professionals at Oh Hello Work Life
- Connect directly with Valerie on LinkedIn here - listen to the end of the episode to learn how to send a LinkedIn message that gets her attention!
- To find out more about prototyping your next career, listen to this episode of the show here
- Book a free 20-min confidential call with Matt to discuss any career or life change challenges you are having here
- Check out more inspiring interviews with full transcripts to scan quickly for career and life change nuggets on the Burn From Within website here
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