What should you do if you or someone you know is considering a post-secondary program but unsure it’s a fit?

Try before you buy, is the advice from Nov. 28 show’s guest, Luis Figueroa, drummer for Arizona Lily. He was considering the Jazz Music program at Humber College in Toronto, so he took some courses and workshops in advance. “It made me love the school. I met teachers ahead of time. I’d recommend it to anyone.” He enrolled, and graduated.

What does Luis suggest for people with an artistic gift and wondering whether to pursue it as a career? “Keep at it, keep the patience!” Listen to the whole interview (Luis starts at minute 22:30).

Wondering what next in your own career story? Or, looking for a way to help someone you know in theirs? Take advantage of our seasonal offer of 45% off an Exploratory Consultation and get thinking in a new way, right away, about your career and life.
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Award-winning authors of The Career Clinic, and The Best Laid Plans.

December 12, 2012

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Maureen Anderson is the host of The Career Clinic radio show based in Fargo, ND, and airs on 86 stations across the US. She’s author of The Career Clinic: Eight Simple Rules for Finding Work You Love. The book is based on her radio show of the same name, and shares the inspiring personal stories of people who have made dramatic career transitions. A civil engineering graduate, Maureen held a positions in management and sales before getting into radio. Maureen is an award-winning journalist and author, with Jon Hovde, of Left for Dead: A Second Life after Vietnam, which won a Minnesota Book Award. Maureen is also a public speaker, who inspires people to take a more active role in writing the story of their lives. Tune in for a sampling of Maureen’s career stories!

Terry Fallis has a career that spans politics, public relations, novel writing, and engineering. He’s the author of The Best Laid Plans which won the 2008 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. It was crowned the winner of CBC Canada Reads as the “essential Canadian novel of the decade.” Terry’s third novel, Up and Down, debuted in September 2012 on the Globe and Mail bestsellers list. After earning an engineering degree, Terry used a liberal dose of career-change special-sauce and swapped applied science for applied political science and joined then future Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s staff. He worked in politics for four more years before becoming a communications consultant eventually leading an agency for Hill and Knowlton. In 1995, Terry co-founded communications agency Thornley Fallis. Terry also co-hosts the popular business podcast, Inside PR. A homebuilt hovercraft plays a supporting role in The Best Laid Plans. Dial us in to hear Terry Fallis’s thing for hovercrafts, and the twists and turns in his multi-chaptered career story.

PLUS, join in for our new feature, Career Buzz Conversations. This week’s topic: building a career in an area beyond what you studied. Call in or email me with your comments and questions as co-host Melissa Rodway and I spark the conversation!