Change Your Story: escape from a job you hate and create a career you love!
According to Gallup, we spend just over 81,000 hours working during our lifetime yet only one person in ten actually loves what they do.
Change Your Story podcast host Carolyn Parry is an award-winning career and life coach, author, and speaker on a mission to help those who are unhappy at work - and that's because she knows what it feels like!
Fortunately, she eventually found a way to transform the successful but soul-eroding business career that burned her out into a twenty-year-plus career she is still as passionate about today. That's because it aligns with who she really is and her desire to help other professionals find something more meaningful so they can escape the hamster wheel, too.
Carolyn is the immediate past President of the Career Development Institute, the professional body for the career development sector. A TEDx speaker and non-executive director, she recently published her first book, which shares its name with this podcast and includes some of its stories. Readers on Amazon have described it as 'motivational', 'inspiring', 'empowering', 'encouraging', and 'life-changing'.
So settle back, get comfortable, and join Carolyn and her inspirational guests as they share powerful stories, strategies, and insights to help you find your inspiration so you can create a career that brings you joy too.
Welcome to Change Your Story.
Change Your Story: escape from a job you hate and create a career you love!
A conversation with Dr Clive King: from geographer, coder, and global techie problem solver turned contractor who loves an outdoor challenges
Apart from the first six months of his professional career, which he left due to a dream he had, Dr Clive King has spent the whole of his career supporting global technology clients for Oracle, one of the largest technology companies, from his home base near Aberystwyth at a time when working from home wasn't a thing.
A self-confessed contrarian who loves challenging goals and working to solve highly complex technology problems with others, Clive discovered that becoming a specialist expert in a particular niche area makes you highly sought after. He also found time to pursue his love of the outdoors and take on climbing/ultra-running challenges.
Discover how his default position of saying yes to opportunity led him to a life-changing chance to learn a method of rational thinking to solve problems, which he applies to every part of his life, and how opportunity helped him to retire from corporate life at 55, a goal he had set 15 years before he achieved it in 2023.
Now working as a contractor on solving complex problems for clients, Clive spends more time doing what he loves – being a dirtbag rock climber, training his spaniel and continuing to be the curator of TEDx Aberystwyth, exploring interesting ideas.
He also does the rewarding work of supporting the next generation of aspiring computer scientists as an honorary fellow of Aberystwyth University and listening to a Swedish psychedelic progressive rock band!
Dr Clive King can be contacted via:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/clive-king-90a847/
SHOW RESOURCES:
Change Your Story – my new research-backed book on career change.
https://kepner-tregoe.com/gbr - rational thinking methodology .
Thinking, fast and slow’ – bestseller by Daniel Kahneman.
Blink – bestseller by Malcolm Gladwell
“Feet in the Clouds: A tale of fell-running and obsession” – classic running book by Robert Askwith, focussed on the sport of fell-running.
BCS (British Computer Society) – the chartered body for Information Technology
TEDx Aberystwyth - interesting ideas from across the globe
For full show references, please visit:
https://www.careeralchemy.co.uk/episode-shownotes.html
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Find out more about Carolyn's new book:
'Change Your Story: Escape from a job you hate and create a career you love - on purpose.'
Interested in hiring Carolyn as your coach?
Why not book a free 30-minute discovery call with Carolyn to discuss your needs and find out more about how she can help you to change your story?
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