You know it is wrong and not what is right
The current path has stopped fitting and every alternative feels equally vague.
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Work out what would suit you before you jump.
A course for the stage before a career change, when you know something needs to move and not where. It covers examining your strengths, values and constraints, generating real options, and testing them cheaply before committing.
Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.
Type this when Cadence asks what you want to learn
I am considering a career change but do not know what would suit me. Help me examine my strengths, values, and constraints and test options before committing.
Change any word so it fits your situation. The course is built from what you type and a few setup questions.
- Best for
- Career growth
- Prerequisites
- None. Bring the situation you have.
- Course length
- 7 to 30 lessons, sized to your goal
- Lesson pace
- About 10 minutes a day
- Format
- Read it, or play the audio
- Access
- Available on the App Store, with early features and Android testing access
Before the course is built
Setup asks about your situation first.
Lesson 1 opens on the moment you describe, and the examples use your role. For this request, expect questions like these.
- Is the itch about the work itself, the environment, the people, or the pace?
- Are you free to take a risk, or do finances and family set firm limits?
- Do you have options in mind already, or a blank page?
Right for now
If any of this sounds familiar, start here.
You have a fantasy and no evidence
The other career looks better from here, and you have not tested it against a real week.
You cannot afford a wrong move
Constraints are real, which makes exploring feel like a luxury when it is actually the safe option.
Course arc
Where the course goes, in order.
Cadence writes the lessons for you, so the exact path follows your answers. This is the ground a course built from this sentence covers.
01 / 06Diagnosing the mismatch
Strengths, values, energy and constraints, and how to tell which one is doing the complaining.
What you are good at and what you enjoy
Why those two lists differ, and which one predicts satisfaction.
Widening the options
Adjacent roles, changed settings and reshaped current jobs, before any leap.
Cheap experiments
Conversations, small projects and trial periods that test an option in weeks.
Reading the evidence
Knowing what a good test result looks like, and when to stop exploring.
Deciding and moving
Choosing with your constraints in view, and planning the transition.
What changes
What you will be able to do, and what you will stop believing.
You will be able to
Name what has to change
Separate the job, the setting and the life around it, and find where the mismatch really sits.
Generate options worth testing
Move beyond the two obvious alternatives to a wider, more honest set.
Test before you commit
Run small experiments that produce evidence, not just reflection.
Ideas this course corrects
You need to find your passion
Most satisfying careers are built, not found. Fit grows from competence, autonomy and people.
A career change means starting over
Adjacent moves carry most of your experience with you. Total resets are rarer and rarely necessary.
Course questions
What to know before you start.
Is this a fixed course?
No. Cadence builds the course when you type the sentence and answer a few setup questions, so the lessons follow your situation. This page describes what a course built from this request covers. You see the whole path before Lesson 1.
Who is this course for?
A course for the stage before a career change, when you know something needs to move and not where. It covers examining your strengths, values and constraints, generating real options, and testing them cheaply before committing. It sits under Career growth in the Work & ambitions part of the library.
Do I need any prior experience?
No. Setup asks what you already know and where you want to use it, and the course starts from there. Bring a real situation if you have one; the examples are built around it.
How long does it take?
Courses run 7 to 30 lessons of about 10 minutes, sized to what you asked for. One lesson a day is the intended pace, and you can go faster. Lessons can be read or played as audio.
Does this course award a certificate or degree?
No. Cadence is for practical self-learning and does not award accredited degrees or professional certification.
Start today
Type it, answer a few questions, open Lesson 1.
The sentence to type
I am considering a career change but do not know what would suit me. Help me examine my strengths, values, and constraints and test options before committing.
Open Cadence on the App Store, type the sentence when it asks what you want to learn, and answer a few setup questions. Free to start. Android testers can request early access.