The Transit Lounge

When you have a 'successful' career, making a significant career change after 40 takes courage - and - often it needs a trigger of some sort.Why else would you leave the comfort and certainty of what you already know?For Rachael Huntly the trigger was having her 4th child and feeling like she just couldn't go back and keep doing what she had been doing... her role wasn't bad, and she loved her clients, BUT it wasn't satisfying her on a deeper level...So she didn't go back to her job and instead has started a new career working for herself as a Scientific Hand Analyst.If you're asking yourself - What the hell is a Scientific Hand Analyst??? - then you're not alone!In this interview episode Rachael shares:What a Scientific Hand Analyst is [and what it's not!]The unusual and indirect way she discovered it was what she wanted to doHow the skeptics in her life reacted to her decision to work for herselfThe scariest part of making the change - and how she manages itTips for anyone thinking about making a change fro