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If you think you don’t like the worries and troubles (and joys) of what you do now, make a change.  These just may be the good old days.  Your new life may be so miserable you can’t stand it.

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As I write this, I am headed off to a new dentist this morning.  I had been with my old dentist for at least 15 years.  He probably collected $30,000 from my insurance company and me over those years as we prepared my teeth for my dotage.  Laura invited him to my 50th birthday party 12 years ago, and he and his wife came.  So why am I going to a new dentist this morning?  Because he forgot his clients, or patients, come first.

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Over my career, I have seen many, many managers that "don't want to be bothered" with change.  I have news for you--it is your fiduciary responsibility to be bothered with change.  It is a tired old phrase, but change is inevitable, and not keeping up will cause you problems...

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Welcome to the season of change.  You know, the last couple of months of the year when companies resolve to stop doing whatever they were doing that did not work and move on.  This may mean you are declared "redundant" (something that has happened to a good colleague of mine already here at the beginning of the season) or it may mean you will have a new boss or new owners.  Your future career opportunities, at least for the next few years, will be determined by how you act in the first week of this new experience, whatever it may be for you.

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