career change
Anna Levy
There's no shame in taking a "bridge job"

What do you do if you want to make a career change, but your current job sucks up all your energy? 😞

It’s a bind, right?

The reason you want to shift is also the reason you feel you can’t!

Either work is hijacking your time or is sapping any willpower you may have had, so you find it hard to take even small steps in a new direction.

In this situation, a “bridge job” can be a great strategy.  

There's no shame in taking a "bridge job"
Anna Levy
Dear working Mums and Dads...

Here’s to all the parents who’ve been juggling like mad the past two weeks of Easter holiday! I see you…

… Spending the past month coordinating complex childcare arrangements on a colour-coded Excel spreadsheet…
… Project planning a full timetable of activities, entertainment and travel arrangements…
… Multitasking between Zoom meetings, sofa deep-dives for tiny lost Lego parts and fish finger prep…

Dear working Mums and Dads...
Anna Levy
You have no relation with reality

We think we see the world as it is, and we can feel so certain in our convictions, but our view of the world is clouded by preconceptions, judgements and biases.

You have no relation with reality
Anna Levy
Is work making you blue?

Having worked in the industry, I know Blue Monday is PR BS, AND I also know it can be a particularly depressing time of year for you if you’re in the wrong job (a fact I also discovered in my previous career!)

 So what can you do if your work is making you blue?

Is work making you blue?
Anna Levy
What’s the point in having a career vision when ...

We humans are generally pretty rubbish about predicting what’s going to happen. Psychology research has shown that our cognitive biases mean we tend to…

… be overly optimistic about what’s going to happen to us (believing bad things happen to other people)

… assume that, however much we can see we have changed in the past, the way we are now is going to stay consistent (the “end of history illusion”), AND

… underestimate how well we’ll cope if we DO face challenges ahead.

What’s the point in having a career vision when so much about the future is uncertain? 

change

How to Change

How to Change

Navigating a big life upheaval such as a career change is never going to be easy. There are times where the uncertainty feels too uncomfortable or the magnitude of the task too big to bear.

In those moments, the temptation can be to tell yourself your current work situation isn't too bad, that maybe you could just stay where you are, and take the path of least resistance.

But if we really want to make a shift, we have to learn to navigate change effectively, accepting that it's going to be difficult and drawing on strategies to ensure we can do what it takes.

How to cope when life chucks you a curveball

How to cope when life chucks you a curveball

As the great man, Bowie, said: "Turn and face the strange, Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes" and this feels particularly resonant to me as I prepare, this week, for a major change in my working life, leaving London to work remotely in Asia as a ‘Digital Nomad’. As I left my office at the university on Wednesday, I was a bit sad to leave lovely colleagues behind but the overwhelming feeling was of excitement at the uncertainty and sense of possibility this new life brings.

Which got me thinking about change, and the very different emotions it can bring up in you. 

 And more specifically about the difference between big life changes you’ve chosen and ones you haven’t...