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Lynn作为一个为年仅25岁的姑娘，已经在酒店这个行业摸爬滚打七年有余。其中包括 4年瑞士一流管理学校的深造学习，以及在上海凯悦酒店担任了3年多的销售。在可预见的未来，她在凯悦酒店的前途一片光明。

Lynn Zhang was in her mid-20s and had already invested over seven years into her hotel industry career.  Four were from attending a top hotel management school is Switzerland, and then another 3+ years working for the Grand Hyatt in Shanghai as a top salesperson.  Her future in the company and hotel industry looked very bright.

但是，Lynn在接到一家高级咨询公司的初级分析师offer后，毫不犹豫地就接受了这个工作并彻底离开了酒店行业。她自己说：“对于我，是否要放弃原来的工作尝试全新的职位以及做出最终选择，这整个过程都都没有什么可纠结的”。凯悦是家不错的公司，提供诸多员工培训并给我了职业生涯一个很高的起点。这里的工作确实挺好，但我不想再整天讨论房费和季度特价了。我希望自己能涉足生意界，做一些真正的商业决策。

However, when she got an offer from a boutique consulting firm as an entry level Analyst, she didn’t hesitate to take it.  “The whole decision process and actual decision to walk away from what I did before and pursue something completely new weren’t that difficult for me,” she recalls. “Actually, The Grand Hyatt is a great company to work for.  They gave me great training and experience to start my career.  They weren’t the problem.  I just felt that I wanted to do more than just talk about room rates and seasonal specials all day.  I wanted to be involved in business situations and contribute to solving real business problems with clients.

在我从事猎头服务这么多年里，遇到过很多像Lynn那样本身在名企拥有不错工作的人。他们对自己所处行业、目前职位或职业走向不感兴趣，内心渴望挑战、迎接新鲜有趣的事物。

Actually, from my years in recruitment, I meet many people who are doing well in a well-known company, but who aren’t very connected to or excited about the industry, job function, or career path they’re on.  They want to do something that’s more challenging or interesting to them.  

任何人做出巨大的职业变动都需要深思熟虑。以Lynn为例，我曾经问她是什么促使她放弃目前的积累转身从零开始？她在回答中提到了两点。

Still, it’s a difficult decision and huge move to make a big career change for anyone.  In Lynn’s case, I asked her how she got herself to leave behind something she was very successful at to pursue something much different with an unknown future.  She mentioned two things.

“因为一直以来在酒店都业绩很好，所以跨行的决定对我来说并不存在任何风险。”如果以后我发现自己不喜欢这一行，我随时可以重回酒店业。即使这种情况真的出现，我在新领域的见识和积累都能成为我重回酒店业和客户沟通方面的宝贵经验。 

“Because I had a very good track record of performance, I didn’t feel I was taking such a big risk,” she said.  “If for whatever reason I didn’t like this new job, or sucked at it, I knew I could always do hotel sales again.  And if that happened, whatever I learned from the different challenges I faced would make me even better at doing hotel sales and interacting with clients.

“我还年轻事业也才刚刚起步，所以即使作出这么大的转行决定也没有什么。将来有一天我会结婚成立家庭，所以趁我现在孑然一身，既不用担心经济问题又没有家庭责任的束缚的时候，何不放胆搏一把？”

“I was also still fairly young and early in my career to make a big move.  I planned to get married and have a family someday, but at the moment I was single and didn’t have any major financial or family responsibilities.  So if there was a time to focus on my career, this was it.”

事实证明，Lynn在商业上有过人的天赋和热情，从初级分析师开始，逐渐接受一些大型咨询项目和高级别客户，过程中她展现了动力，激情和优秀的工作能力。现在八年过去了，她依旧非常享受高级经理和顶级咨询顾问的工作，也锻造了科技、媒体和通信等自己的专长领域。

So how did things end up for Lynn?  It turns out that she did have a mind and passion for business.  From her entry level role, she quickly showed her drive and capability to work on increasingly bigger consulting projects and higher profile clients.  Today, eight years later, she’s enjoying what she’s does as a senior manager and top consultant, specializing in TMT-related engagements. 

Lynn告诉我 “我不想将来后悔自己当初没有把握机遇放胆一搏，如果当初我选择继续呆在酒店业安心稳定地工作也挺好的，只不过那不是我内心真正想要的工作。虽然尝试全新工作没有保障，但至少我可以做一些自己心里认为有趣的和喜欢的事情。即使尝试失败，我随时可以重回酒店业，依然可以做出一番成绩”。

“In the end, I didn’t want to have any regrets later on about what I should have and could have done when I had the chance,” says Lynn.  “There would have been nothing wrong with continuing to have a good, steady career in the hotel industry, but that’s not what I wanted.  Even though there were no guarantees pursuing something different, there was at least the possibility for me to do something more interesting to me personally for my career.  That was very exciting to me.  But if by chance it didn’t work out?  I knew I could always go back and be successful at what I was doing before.”

勇敢做出职业变动小建议

Tips For Taking The Leap To Make A Big Career Change

你所处行业的真正风险是什么？ - 尤其是如果你目前积累的不错，成绩显著的话。

What’s the real risk to your career? – especially, if you’ve built a solid track record of achievements and performance in your career to date.

1.新经验和挑战有助于你的成长和进步 - 只要你勇于尝试截然不同的事物，你一定能锻炼出新能力、培养成新品质。

1) The new experience and challenges will help you grow and improve – just by the nature of doing something completely new and different, you’ll develop new capabilities and qualities. 

2.你现在所做的每一件事情都是在为将来的成功积累 - 经验本无好坏之分，重点在于你要从失败的经验中学习提升。

2) Everything you do accumulates and adds to your future success – there’s no such thing as bad experience as long as you apply yourself and learn something from your situation.

3.退路永远在那等着你 - 即使尝试失败，你还可以以更加强大优秀的姿态重操旧业。

3) You can always go back – if things don’t work out and you do end up going back to what you did before, you’ll come back stronger and better.

4.勿留遗憾 - 人总会因自己过去的不作为而遗憾，却不会因为已经作出的决定而遗憾。

4) Don’t have regrets – the things you end up regretting most in life are not the things you do, but the things you don’t do.