Episode #004

Take a career break
to make a change in your work life

Cali O'Connor
with

Cali O'Connor

from Travel Shifters

Notes

2 February 2022

Cali O’Connor quit a job in engineering to travel, then later quit another job in engineering to travel again.

After that second career break, she shifted to living in Mexico and working in her own business, Travel Shifters.

Our conversation digs deep on what it’s like to be bored at work, how to survive a toxic workplace, how to take a career break, and why it’s so hard to make positive changes in your work life.

You can connect with Cali on Instagram @thetravelshifters or through the Travel Shifters web site.

Check out her Travel Possibilities podcast, including the episode I mentioned where Cali tells her own story: My Career Break Story.

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Quotes

“I had this perception that the road to success was to get a job: I was so excited to be offered any job, it didn’t matter what it was”

Cali O'Connor

from Travel Shifters

on The Quit Work Podcast

“I wanted to succeed and I wanted to fit in, and to do that I really accepted the way things were”

Cali O'Connor

from Travel Shifters

on The Quit Work Podcast

“These things that were happening in the workplace would trickle into my personal life”

Cali O'Connor

from Travel Shifters

on The Quit Work Podcast

“You can make changes to your life when things aren’t going the way that you want them to... and you can do it quickly”

Cali O'Connor

from Travel Shifters

on The Quit Work Podcast

“I wanted to start my own business; I didn’t 100% know what it was going to look like, but I didn’t let that stop me, because the clarity really does come from taking action”

Cali O'Connor

from Travel Shifters

on The Quit Work Podcast

“In one year from now or five years from now, how are you going to feel if you’re doing the exact same thing as you’re doing right now?”

Cali O'Connor

from Travel Shifters

on The Quit Work Podcast

“The reality is that if you’re unhappy [in your job] now, it’s not going to get better... is that what you want for your life, in this one shot that we have to make it meaningful?”

Cali O'Connor

from Travel Shifters

on The Quit Work Podcast

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