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Mid-Life Career Changes: Motivations and Challenges

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Part 4

People who made a significant career change in mid-life

You will hear the recording twice. While you listen, complete both tasks.

Questions 21-25

For questions 21-25, choose from the list (A-H) the main motivation each speaker gives for making their career change.

Aa growing sense that their work lacked any tangible or lasting outcome

Bthe physical toll of sustained demanding conditions

Cdissatisfaction with the institutional environment rather than the work itself

Dan ethical discomfort with the purpose or consequences of their profession

Ea desire to work more directly with people and see immediate human impact

Fthe unexpected discovery of a passion that gradually displaced their original career

Ga feeling that their professional skills were no longer being sufficiently challenged

Ha personal crisis that forced a fundamental reassessment of their priorities

Questions 26-30

For questions 26-30, choose from the list (A-H) the greatest unexpected challenge each speaker describes after making their career change.

Aadapting to a level of social isolation significantly greater than anticipated

Bdiscovering that assumed transferable skills were far less applicable than expected

Cmanaging the financial instability of an unfamiliar professional context

Dcoping with the absence of rapid and concrete feedback on their performance

Econfronting uncomfortable aspects of their own psychology in a supervised context

Facquiring practical operational knowledge in an area where they had no prior experience

Gmastering an interpersonal craft that proved far more complex than subject expertise alone

Hnavigating the social dynamics of a workplace with a very different professional culture

Finalizing Practice