I am going through a massive career change. I am trying to change what I do from corporate to impact. I am guided by the amazing Escape Manifesto, and still it’s not easy. Lots of stuff to figure out on your own. No one said it would be easy, right? At least I am making some pretty cool discoveries about myself, my values and motivations, and what I want in life.

I posted 14 Most Powerful Ted Talks For Disruptive Career Change before. And then I ran into George Mobiot’s career advice. Don’t ask me who the guy is, Wikipedia will advise better. All I know is he writes for Guardian, so I assume he is British, and he is what is now called a thought leader, which in his case means he is a great thinker with strong views and he can write. I loved his career advice so much, that I decided to cite it fully below.

Remember when you decide to change something about the work you do, that decision to change is already a massive first step. If you are currently also in transition, congratulations! May the change be as positive and transformational as you want it to be.

So my final piece of advice is this: when faced with the choice between engaging with reality or engaging with what Erich Fromm calls the “necrophiliac” world of wealth and power, choose life, whatever the apparent costs may be. Your peers might at first look down on you: poor Nina, she’s twenty-six and she still doesn’t own a car. But those who have put wealth and power above life are living in the world of death, in which the living put their tombstones – their framed certificates signifying acceptance to that world – on their walls.