Take This Career Quiz (FREE) This free topic will help you take a look at yourself. Take the quiz and see for yourself. You definitely want to register for this guide if you are thinking about changing careers. Take This Career Quiz (FREE) Is the cup half-full or half-empty? How you see it makes a big difference in how happy you feel about it! This Career Quiz is a barometer of your attitude toward changing careers. This is an exciting time to make a change. The opportunities in the job market have never been greater. Bringing a positive attitude to your future will not only make you happier as you go along, it will allow you to notice a great opportunity when you see one! On the other hand, if you don't believe it something, you won't allow it to happen. A great opportunity starts looking like a half-empty cup to you. And you miss your chance to seize an exciting offer! Don't let it happen. Nip those negative beliefs in the bud. The realities of the marketplace don't support a pessimistic view. Optimism and reality have never been more in sync. Make it work for you! Half-Empty or Half-Full? Which of these statements are true and which are false? 1. Nobody will hire you if you lack experience. 2. It's hard to find a job once you're over 50. 3. People switch careers successfully all the time. 4. Even if you're starting out in a new career, your life experience can make you quickly rise to the top. 5. Work is about paying the bills, not enjoying what you do. 6. The competition for jobs is fierce. 7. If I go on a few interviews and don't get hired, it's a bad sign. 8. Nobody ever got rich by doing what they love. Answers 1. Nobody will hire you if you lack experience. False. All kinds of careers are open to you without experience. No one is born with experience. So, literally, everyone in a field started out without experience. If they did it, so can you. 2. It's hard to find a job once you're over 50. False. This has never been less true than it is today. In fact, because so many baby boomers are hitting 50 and working well past retirement, the demographics of the future are strongly in your favor! 3. People switch careers successfully all the time. True. The average person changes jobs every 3.5 years. In the end, we are all likely to work for more than 10 employers in at least 3-4 different careers. 4. Even if you're starting out in a new career, your life experience can make you quickly rise to the top. True. You may be a little uneasy about the youth of your co-workers, when you switch to a new career. But they don't have what you have: life experience. Your ability to make decisions, take a leadership role, bring a broader perspective and apply your finely-honed skills in another field are priceless. Your career arc may well be a lot more interesting then theirs – and well-deserved. 5. Work is about paying the bills, not enjoying what you do. False. This is the old, another-day-at-the-mines work ethic. It's totally antiquated. If it ever did apply, it doesn't now. We have more opportunities to find interesting, fulfilling work to suit our own personal styles than at any time in history. 6. The competition for jobs is fierce. True. So what? You've got the goods, right? There may be people with more experience or better skills. But other qualities – which you may possess in abundance – often win the day. There's a lot of competition. But that doesn't change the fact that your job is out there waiting for you. 7. If I go on a few interviews and don't get hired, it's a bad sign. False. First, there are no "bad signs." And second, not getting hired after a few – or even a dozen or more – interviews is par for the course. Sometimes you luck out. But it's not the most common way to get a job. Usually you have to knock on a lot of doors – and kiss a lot of frogs – but who's counting? Nobody ever got rich by doing what they love. False. Should I start making the list or should you? At the high end, there's Steven Spielberg and Bill Gates. Clearly doing what they love. There are inspiring examples of financial success by people who love what they're doing in nearly every field. But if you include a richness of life in that measure, the list is endless. You can't be sure of the money. But doing what you love will virtually guarantee your life will be rich. And who could complain about that? . Take This Career Quiz (FREE) This free topic will help you take a look at yourself. Take the quiz and see for yourself. You. yourself. You definitely want to register for this guide if you are thinking about changing careers. Take This Career Quiz (FREE) Is the cup half-full or half-empty?