{"id":1725,"date":"2012-10-21T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2012-02-07T12:09:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T18:09:17","slug":"direction-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/direction-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Direction of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt of David\u2019s interview in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcoachingtechniques.com\/\">Top Coaching Techniques<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ingrid: Look, I have to admit, I was in year ten when we were told we had to start to choose our subjects and our direction in life, our future careers, and I thought I wanted to be a physiotherapist, David. Then I went and did work experience, and I could not get out of there fast enough at the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p>David: Right, right. So you bring up a great point, and I\u2019m sure there are a lot of listeners out there who are thinking, \u2018Maybe I want to be a photographer; maybe I want to be an actor.\u2019 but what happens is, we box ourselves, and we think, \u2018I have to quit my job and go and study that, or I have to stick with my job.\u2019 What about the middle ground? If you want to be a photographer, and you think that might be a great career, go and do a photography course. Do it as a hobby and see if you can start getting a little bit of money for it. Maybe at some point you\u2019ll cut back your current job and transition into photography, or at some point you\u2019ll quit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt of David\u2019s interview in Top Coaching Techniques. Ingrid: Look, I have to admit, I was in year ten when we were told we had to start to choose our subjects and our direction in life, our future careers, and I thought I wanted to be a physiotherapist, David. Then I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159],"tags":[317,265,122],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}