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When Your Dream Career is Dying

<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><img class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2619" title&equals;"10862508" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;collegecareerlife&period;net&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2010&sol;11&sol;dreamstime&lowbar;108625082-e1288679154262&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"567" height&equals;"377" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With changes in technology and culture come shifts in career trends&period;  Some of the jobs that exist today will be obsolete in a few decades&comma; while many future jobs don&&num;8217&semi;t exist yet&period;  Entire industries die and new ones develop&period;  This is all good news if you&&num;8217&semi;ve identified a good career in an <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;collegecareerlife&period;net&sol;2010&sol;03&sol;01&sol;high-demand-jobs-future&sol;" class&equals;"broken&lowbar;link">up-and-coming field<&sol;a>&period;  But what if your dream job is in a dying industry&quest;   Read on to learn how can you achieve career satisfaction even when your dream job is disappearing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Make it a Hobby<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Your passion doesn&&num;8217&semi;t have to be your livelihood &&num;8211&semi; and maybe it shouldn&&num;8217&semi;t be&period;  When you have to do something&comma; it automatically becomes less appealing&period;   Work will be stressful&comma; no matter how interesting&comma; and your passion may fade when it&&num;8217&semi;s associated with the stress of a full-time job&period;  Solution&colon; find a job you like and save your passion for a hobby&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Embrace Technology<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If you&&num;8217&semi;ve always wanted to be a journalist&comma; you can still be one&comma; but you&&num;8217&semi;ll need additional skills&period;  Web development and programming abilities will improve your chances of landing a job&period;  Technical skills combined with a traditional career can lead to greater job satisfaction and security&period;  Look at job listings in your chosen field to find out what skills are in demand &lpar;I recommend the employment trends feature at SimplyHired&period;com&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Why Do You Really Like the Job&quest;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Maybe your dream career has everything &&num;8211&semi; it&&num;8217&semi;s interesting&comma; fits your personality&comma; and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;collegecareerlife&period;net&sol;2010&sol;03&sol;27&sol;assessing-career-values&sol;" class&equals;"broken&lowbar;link">aligns with your values<&sol;a>&period;  But it&&num;8217&semi;s also possible that an underlying characteristic of the job appeals to you more than the job itself&period;  Maybe it&&num;8217&semi;s creativity expression&comma; social interaction&comma; or autonomy&period;  Find out what you&&num;8217&semi;re really looking for in a career and search for high-growth jobs that offer it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Even if you choose a stable job&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s likely you&&num;8217&semi;ll change careers several times during your lifetime for various reasons&period;  Rapidly changing technology and globalization require a more flexible&comma; adaptive workforce&period;  Don&&num;8217&semi;t feel like you&&num;8217&semi;re stuck in a job once you make a career choice or that you can&&num;8217&semi;t break into a new field&period;   Read the Top Ten Sites for Choosing a Career for great online career planning resources&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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