Why is it Difficult to do a Mid-Career Switch?

It’s def­i­nitely not easy to switch do a mid-career switch.  There are a lot of things to con­sider and it’s not easy to make a deci­sion with a few hours of thoughts to it.  A mid-career switch means that what­ever you have built up in you and the things around you will not be usable any­more in the new envi­ron­ment.  You need to start every­thing over again from scratch.  What is resis­tance in every indi­vid­ual is that we are unable to give up eas­ily of the things that we’ve built already.  Let’s take a peek on what are the things that is hold­ing us back…

1. You wor­ried that you will not be able to earn as much as you are now – The first and fore­most worry that indi­vid­u­als are con­cerned with.  This is espe­cially true for those seek­ing to move into sales and trad­ing sec­tor.  This is a prac­ti­cal rea­son why peo­ple are unable to make a career switch.
2. You have a lot of finan­cial com­mit­ments – The sec­ond con­cern fol­low­ing the money issue.  This con­cern gets worse when you have a fam­ily or plan­ning to have a fam­ily.  Finan­cial com­mit­ment includes debts, mort­gage, car, your baby, your kid’s edu­ca­tion, etc.  Any­thing that comes out from your bank account.  You’re afraid the monthly cash flow will be severely affected after you changed your job.
3. You are wor­ried with the unknown implicit and explicit ben­e­fits of the new organ­i­sa­tion – You are unsure if the ben­e­fits in the new place are going to be on par or worst from what you are receiv­ing now.  That can be explicit or implicit ones.  Explicit ones are your insur­ance cov­er­age, health, annual leave and sim­i­lar types of ben­e­fits.  On the other hand, implicit ben­e­fits can be; do you have the lux­ury to work from home?  Does the boss give you full auton­omy to your work?  Can you leave on the dot every­day?  Will your week­end and after-office hours be sparred from clear­ing your mail­box or attend­ing to work-related phone calls?
4. You are wor­ried of the added stress you fore­see in the new organ­i­sa­tion – You are wor­ried that the addi­tional learn­ing curves you need to be in the organ­i­sa­tion, espe­cially for those that is going for a totally dif­fer­ent career switch.  You are afraid that you will have nasty col­leagues that will be ALWAYS out to get you.
5. You are attached to your cur­rent employer either through the organ­i­sa­tion as a whole or the peo­ple work­ing in it – This applies to indi­vid­u­als that are more on the emo­tional side.  They can’t bear to leave the organ­i­sa­tion as there feel­ings for it.  They can bear to leave their col­leagues as they have devel­oped friend­ship over the years.  They are emo­tion­ally attached to the organ­i­sa­tion and people.

Hav­ing under­stood these con­cerns, it’s not impos­si­ble to make a career switch.  To do so, you need to make a cal­cu­lated risk.  You can take step-by-step towards your switch­ing your career instead of a big-bang one time approach. Of course, there are peo­ple who do a big-bang approach and works for them.  Our advice to you if you want to change your career, think of these con­cerns and find ways to reduce or workaround it.  In this way, you will feel more com­fort­able and con­fi­dent with your decision!

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