The time has come for me to make a career change. As I’ve begun the personal assessment process, there are two things that repeatedly surface for me: golf and cooking. Both are huge passions of mine. I could easily see getting into golf business management and learning to run the golf operations at a local course. Heck, I spend enough time and money at several of them in my area, that it would be a no brainer!

The great thing about so many career education offerings now days is that they come with bonafide certificates that hold their own weight. Just having a golf associate degree is enough to make me lean towards that route.

Of course, there are a number of culinary institutes that have similar offerings as well. In fact, for roughly the same amount of time I could get certified to be either a golf professional or a trained chef. Of course 2 years is not nearly enough to be a head chef or the lead golf pro. By opting to get secondary training and education, I would jump up the ladder much faster then many of those in their respective industries.

Either way, I believe now is a very exciting time to consider a career change.

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One of my closest friends lost his job in engineering about a month ago. I’ve known him for a long time, and in his line of work that is always a threat, but he usually finds something else pretty quickly. I’ve known him for a little over ten years, and this is the third time it has happened. Of course, once the project has been completed, there isn’t any more work to be done.

It seems like he calls me ever day to see if I want to go golfing. Hey, that can’t happen because I still do have a job. I wish I could, but I don’t have the kind of free time that somebody who is currently unemployed has! What is surprising me is that he is able to find at least one other person to go play with him every single day. Who would have guessed that one?

Today he calls me, and I totally saw the writing on the wall. As soon as I saw who was calling on my caller ID it was like I heard him say it before I answered the phone: “Hey buddy, want to give your new Big Bertha irons a workout today?” But instead of saying that he said “Hey buddy, you’ll never guess what I’m going to do.” If course I said “Let me guess; you’re going golfing” I have to say he threw a real curve ball at me when he told me he was signing up to go to one of the golf colleges.  I guess he is going to start a golf career and teach golf. Hopefully I’ll get some free pointers out of him!

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