You Are Allowed to Change Your Mind
A former HR director on how to change course at any age, without drama, guilt or a dramatic resignation letter.
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Most of us chose our careers at twenty-two and have been politely sticking to that decision ever since. Nell Ashworth spent two decades in HR watching people stay too long and leave badly, and then she left herself. In this warm, practical book she shows you how to notice when it is time, how to test a new direction before you jump, how to talk about it with the people who depend on you and how to stop apologising for having outgrown something. Short chapters, real examples and exercises you can do at the kitchen table.
Think about who you were at twenty-two. What you wore, what you ate, the music you played in your first flat. Most of us would not trust that person to choose our sofa today. Yet we let them choose the work we do for forty hours a week, and then we stay loyal to their decision for thirty years out of a sort of stubborn politeness. I did it. I went into HR because a careers adviser in 1994 said I was good with people and organised, which was true, and because the graduate scheme paid for a train
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For twenty-two years I worked in HR for a large insurance company in Manchester. I ran restructures, wrote policies nobody read and sat across the table from a great many people on the worst day of their working lives. At forty-nine I sat on the other side of that table myself, and it was the best thing that ever happened to me, though it took a year to admit it. Now I coach people through career changes from my kitchen in Chorlton, with a lot of tea and a dog called Biscuit under the table. My books are short because my readers are busy. They are honest because I have had enough of the other kind.
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