{"id":6137,"date":"2017-02-05T07:50:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?p=6137"},"modified":"2017-02-05T07:50:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T11:50:14","slug":"take-the-leap-qa-with-career-expert-kerry-hannon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?p=6137","title":{"rendered":"Take the Leap: Q&#038;A with Career Expert Kerry Hannon"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry__header\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;headline&quot;}}\">\n<div class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?attachment_id=6140\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6140\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6140\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?attachment_id=6140\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/download.jpeg?fit=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"200,200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"download\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/download.jpeg?fit=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/download.jpeg?fit=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6140\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/download.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/download.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/download.jpeg?w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Author and <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/\" target=\"_hplink\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;entry_text&quot;,&quot;lnid&quot;:&quot;citation&quot;,&quot;mpid&quot;:1,&quot;plid&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/&quot;}}\">Kerry Hannon<\/a> <\/strong>specializes in facing life transitions with resilience. She\u2019s authored several books about career success\u2014including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1118898060?ie=UTF8&amp;creativeASIN=1118898060&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;tag=kerrhann-20\"><em>Love Your Job: The New Rules for Career Happiness<\/em><\/a>\u2014and she\u2019s also a personal finance expert, helping her readers relieve anxiety around money management. She weighs in on why we should take the scary leap when it comes to our career and when to listen to our gut.<\/div>\n<div class=\"js-horizontal-share share-bar share-bar--horizontal\" data-beacon=\"{&quot;p&quot;:{&quot;mnid&quot;:&quot;headline_share_bar&quot;}}\" data-mobilepath=\"\/us\/entry\/14389734\" data-sharingtitle=\"Take the Scary Leap: Q&amp;A with Career Expert Kerry Hannon\" data-sharingtweetname=\"HPLifestyle\" data-sharingtweettext=\"Take+the+Scary+Leap%3A+Q%26A+with+Career+Expert+Kerry+Hannon\" data-sharingurl=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/mequilibrium\/take-the-scary-leap-qa-wi_b_14389734.html\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\"><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry__content js-entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry__body js-entry-body\">\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_5164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5164\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?attachment_id=5164\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5164\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5164\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kerryhannon.com\/?attachment_id=5164\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/034V2_crop-web.jpg?fit=960%2C1200&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"960,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1446557092&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"034V2_crop web\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/034V2_crop-web.jpg?fit=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/034V2_crop-web.jpg?fit=640%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-5164 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/034V2_crop-web.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/034V2_crop-web.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/034V2_crop-web.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kerryhannon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/034V2_crop-web.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author and Career Expert Kerry Hannon; Photo by Elizabeth Dranitzke, Photopia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>What is your resilience journey?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>About 15 years ago, I was walking down a beach in Siesta Key, Florida, when my father asked me how I was doing. I paused for a second and decided to tell the truth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m miserable,\u201d I told him. The problem wasn\u2019t my personal life, but my work. I had the job of my dreams, writing a financial column for a large national newspaper complete with my photo, and I was being paid handsomely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p>Dad didn\u2019t miss a beat. \u201cQuit,\u201d he advised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p>For years, I had figured that being a national columnist would be the capstone for my career\u2014proof that I had made it. But it wasn\u2019t a good work environment for me. My co-workers were wonderful and so were my editors, but I wasn\u2019t hardwired to work in a noisy newsroom with no walls between desks and a steady pressure to meet daily deadlines. After some soul-searching, I resigned.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/mequilibrium\/take-the-scary-leap-qa-wi_b_14389734.html\">Read on Huffington Post<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p><strong>That\u2019s brave&#8230;but scary, too! What did you do next?<\/strong><br \/>\nLuckily, I had a contract to write a book on Navajo weaving that gave me a project to get rolling. I was assigned to tell the stories of three Navajo weavers and the history of an old Trading Post located near Farmington, New Mexico.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p>That book, <em>Trees in a Circle<\/em>, was life-changing. I met Mary, who was in her 80s and lived 45 minutes down a dirt road. Her home had no electricity or running water. In fact, her loom was the biggest object there. Mary wove monumental rugs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p>When I asked her questions though a translator about what inspired her to weave these epic rugs, she replied with a sparkle in her eyes, \u201cYou ask questions no one thinks about.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p>Her simple wisdom startled me. I looked around outside of her hogan and something inside of me changed. She was surrounded by beauty, big skies, red rocks\u2014all wrapped in the serenity of nature. Mary saw the world through eyes of joy and wove from her heart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p>I went home and never looked back. I decided then and there to be my own boss. That\u2019s a scary jump, trust me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p><strong>What types of resilience challenges have you faced, and how have you tackled them?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt hasn\u2019t always been a smooth path, but my business has grown steadily. During these years, I have had to rely on my ability to take change in stride, to work with an ever-changing assortment of editors, to tackle assignments no one else wants to do, to juggle more work than I ever imagined back in my staff job days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p><strong>What are some things you\u2019ve learned thus far on your resilience journey?<\/strong><br \/>\nI learned to speak in front of audiences sometimes as large as 1,500 people, and believe me when I tell you: I was a shy child.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p>I have learned to accept rejection from book publishers with grace and move on. And I have learned to reach out and meet new people every day whether by phone, email, tweet or in person\u2014the old-fashioned way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p>The secret sauce is resilience. I\u2019m not afraid to fail, or to stand up in front of a group of people and share my advice to hopefully make a positive difference in their lives, because I believe in myself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p><strong>How do you personally interpret the meaning of resilience?<\/strong><br \/>\nOne way of visualizing [resilience] is when I ride my horse. When I\u2019m approaching a jump and having trouble finding the right distance to ask my horse to leave the ground, my trainer simply says, try a different turn, go deeper into the corner, for example, and you\u2019ll have an entirely new approach. And bingo, it works.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p>Best of all, I have found that in the end, the new direction usually is for the best. Score one for resilience. I have a core strength and confidence, but it\u2019s the ability to be flexible, to make a different approach to the jump, that has made all the difference.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p><strong>Your specialty is careers. How can people remain engaged and adaptive at work? <\/strong><br \/>\nRaise your hand. Ask for new duties. Accept assignments nobody else wants to take because they\u2019re hard. It forces you to ramp up your own learning and scares you a bit. If you hate your job, it\u2019s because you\u2019re bored. Push yourself to say \u201cyes.\u201d Resilience comes down to not being afraid to fail.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your top tip for our readers? <\/strong><br \/>\nBe open-minded. The simplest thing is to make yourself do one thing every day that you really don\u2019t want to do. Pick up the phone. Networking is critical. This builds into resilience: If you are complacent and interacting with the same group year after year, you\u2019re not prepared. I try to do one thing to build my network and continue to solidify it in a new direction every day. Push yourself, but break it into small moments. Go to a lecture, sign up for a series. You never know where someone might give you a germ of an idea.<\/p>\n<p>by Kara Baskin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component mt-paragraph text\">\n<p><em>Kara Baskin is a Boston-based journalist who writes about food, health, wellbeing, and lifestyle for The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, Women\u2019s Health, and AARP\u2019s Life Reimagined. 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