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The Career Change Playbook
How to Move Into Work You Actually Want When You’re Already a Decade Into Something ElseBy Mira LindqvistNarrated by Olivia PierceLength6h 37m
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**The Career Change Playbook — Audiobook · Narrated by Olivia Pierce.**
🎧 Listen time: 6 hours 38 minutes
How to change careers after 40, switch paths without financial collapse, and build meaningful work when you’re already deep into a different life.
At some point, the question stops being “Do I like my job?” and becomes “Can I keep doing this for another ten or twenty years?” For many mid-career professionals, that question arrives quietly—Sunday night dread, a sense of being locked into a path that no longer fits, and the suspicion that it might be too late to change.
This book is for that moment. It treats career change not as a leap of faith, but as a structured transition that can be planned, tested, and executed without gambling your financial stability. The goal is not reinvention for its own sake, but a controlled shift into work that fits your skills, values, and current life constraints.
Rather than encouraging impulsive quitting or fantasy-driven pivots, it focuses on practical steps: diagnosing what is actually wrong with your current role, identifying transferable skills, testing new directions safely, and building bridge roles that reduce risk while moving you forward.
Inside this career change guide:
Diagnosing the real problem — Job, manager, industry, or burnout: what actually needs to change.
The financial runway strategy — How to calculate what you can safely afford before switching paths.
Skills you already carry — Identifying transferable strengths you underestimate.
Testing before committing — Low-risk experiments to validate new career directions.
Bridge roles and transitions — How to move gradually instead of jumping blindly.
Rewriting your professional story — Translating experience into a new field’s language.
Identity after change — What happens psychologically when your career label shifts.
Career change after 40 is not about starting over. It is about repositioning years of experience into a different direction that still makes sense financially and personally.
With the right structure, transition becomes less about risk and more about sequence—small moves that compound into a new professional identity over time.
Audiobook details
GenreSelf-Help, Business and Economics
Length6 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byOlivia Pierce
FormatAudiobook
LanguageEnglish
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