Career Switches an Appealing Option in Today’s Workforce

Most people right now are no stranger to the fear of job loss, and it’s making people really reevaluate at their current lines of work. According to Washington’s Tri-City Herald, a new study reports that 57% of individuals making less than $40,000 per year have given serious thought to changing careers. What’s more, many are looking to business, paralegal, and medical assistant degrees to build skills for careers in more stable fields.

For many feeling stuck in their jobs, the recession is an opportunity to do something different, said Maureen Moriarty, a career transition coach and founder of Pathways to Change in Sammamish. A lot of her clients are talking about going back to school to learn new skills needed for jobs in the health care industry, which has survived the recession better than most sectors of the economy.

Aging baby boomers and the rising demand for health care has sustained the industry’s growth, said Chris Weber, an economics professor at Seattle University. He said unemployment may continue to rise, even after the recession is over.

That makes going to school a nice option, said Randy Rogers, regional vice president of Northwest operations at Everest College, which sponsored the survey.

Rodgers predicts that home care, medical assisting, pharmacy tech, legal and accounting administration, and dental assisting will continue to consistently rank among the top recession-proof career paths. Meanwhile, Moriarty mentions that even those currently in these fields could richly benefit from being a life-long learner, meaning that technical, legal, and medical assistant schools are soon to be in even hotter demand than ever.

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