It's your move, choose wisely

Every major decisions in one's life requires a lot of consideration. Choosing your university and major to study, investing your lifetime savings, or even choosing your lifetime partner. These moments will decide your future which you will have to live with your decision for a long time. However, who knew whether your every decisions made were the best decisons? Don't you ever doubt yourself in what you are wearing today? Did I make the right decision on taking extra English courses instead of spending my time earning more income? Will this women cheat on me after we get married? It is by our very human nature to wanted to avoid having regrets over decisions made by ourselves and these sensors allow us to always reconsider our decisions step by step. The New York Times has supported this idea by releasing an article concerning several job market experts' suggestions on why and how should one be extra careful when changing their job or ,even bigger, their career.

In "The Big Switch, One Step at a Time", the first suggestions was to assess yourself and the market trends to see whether your skill is becoming obselete or is it just in a cyclical downturn and whether your career is your 'true calling' along with other minor detailed questions. One of the experts, Katy Piotrowski, a career counselor in Front Collins, Co., has provide a reason for importance of assessment was that when making a career switch, one may face a decline in salary because "you're moving away from your core expertise". Apparently, this process is just to determine whether one should be changing one's job or not. Once the result suggests for changes, the experts also sugguest for minor trials as well such as internship or part-time job in order to attain some real-world experience as well as having some strong advanges to add to your resume.

This report has proved to show insight on many aspects of why changing job might leads to a dead end and how should one manage to take a safe route to avoid regreting their decision. They also provide the readers with valid arguments concerning the time and resources that would affect the decision making process because changing job does include some investment. However, the most important part would be that the advices in this article are useful and should be kept in mind when we are placed in a situation where changing job should be considered.

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References

The Big Switch, One Step at a Time. (June 18, 2011). The New York Times. Retrieved June 18, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/jobs/19search.html?ref=business