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Really challenging. This is essentially career reinvention where, for
example, you’re moving from a nursing career to becoming a florist, or
you’re-entering the job market after a lengthy career time-out. What makes
this type of career transition such a challenge is that your skills may no
longer be applicable, you may not have any network connections in the
new field (or you lost touch with the ones you did have), and you’ve not
yet built up any work history to prove to potential employers that you can
perform.
While this type of career reinvention isn’t impossible, you should expect
that you’ll need to do significantly more work in order to reach your goals, it
will take longer to accomplish, and your salary will probably be lower than
what you were making before.
Given those facts, why would you consider a career reinvention? For any
number of solid reasons. Perhaps you’ve loved the work you were doing,
but as you’ve grown in your career you’ve also developed an interest in an
outside passion. Or you decided that taking a career time-out to raise your
youngsters was an important priority for you. Or you’ve been doing nursing
for a long, long time and you’d just like to try something new.
In terms of income, your salary is likely to reflect the fact that as a beginner
just starting out in your new career path, you’re basically now an entry-level
employee. With a few exceptions, you no longer benefit from the salary
equity that you could take for granted when you were doing a job based on
the nursing/healthcare skills you developed.

The key take-away here is that all three types of career transitions are
doable; which one(s) you choose to pursue will depend on your individual
circumstances and goals.

Now let’s look at the seven steps that will help you undertake your career
transition, regardless of which type you have in mind.

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