“The time to build your future is in your teenage years and your 20s, but equally, in your 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and beyond.”
Source: You Have The Right Not To Make Your Parents Proud. A Book Of Quotes
“Children are not vessels of our regrets, but seeds of possibilities we cannot yet imagine.”
“A grieving process alongside career change is perfectly normal. The key is to accepting resistance and anticipating it instead of trying to avoid or demonise it. Resistance is a natural part of any transition.”
Source: Leaving Law: How Others Did It and How You Can Too
“Don't allow your own insecurities to keep you away from the career or lifestyle you believe you deserve.”
“Each job requires a conscious choice of career path, and a different plan of development.”
“Several years ago, I realized that I didn’t want to spend all my life in medicine. It had me in a sort of spiritual box, like a plant whose roots are getting crowded. I felt I wasn’t growing. So I promised myself that I would quit while I still had the energy to get involved in something new. There’s nothing wrong with medicine. There’s more paperwork, more lawsuits, less understanding between doctors and patients. But it’s still a great business. But not for me - not any longer.”
Source: Surgeon: The View from Behind the Mask
“We live in an age where our career becomes a key playground through which to derive a sense of identity, fulfilment, and meaning. A job is no longer just a way to pay the bills.”
Source: Leaving Law: How Others Did It and How You Can Too
“In previous generations, identity was largely inherited where these days it is now constructed. Today we are all architects of our own identities, yet we are still learning how to put together career blueprints.”
Source: Leaving Law: How Others Did It and How You Can Too
“Like so many attorneys, I careened from crisis to crisis, dream to dream, idea to idea, plan to plan, notion to notion, and never found the dream that led to the exit from the law firm life.”
Source: And... Just Like That: Essays on a life before, during and after the law
“And do you want to know what else I do a great deal of
the time? I dream. Dreaming always was, and always will be, good, at least for me. There is nothing wrong with adding to the long list of things I will not necessarily be able to do in my life. Dreaming about them makes me feel good. Coming up with new pipe dreams is not such a bad thing at all.”
Source: And... Just Like That: Essays on a life before, during and after the law