Our entourage during a career change
In this video about the importance of the support of the entourage during a career change, Fabiana Bartolozzi shares her own experience with the following points:
- why change paths
- how people reacted
- how they were involved
- outside help
Fabienne Bartolozzi is the owner and manager of Casa Fabiana, a restaurant that services organic food in Luxembourg-Ville, since 2010. Find it on www.casafabiana.lu.
Subtitles are available in english and french.
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Transcription de l'intervention de Fabiana Bartolozzi
Our entourage during a career change
Why change paths?
At 45, I started thinking that I still had time to change careers and do something entirely different. Because after all, 45 isn’t exactly youthful and later, it might be a bit late… And that’s why I decided “OK, time to take the leap.” I always wanted to open a restaurant.
How did people react?
There were different reactions. My good friends thought it was very brave of me to want to change and to open a restaurant. And in my family… it was so-so. My mother was asking me “Why go looking for a job where you’ll have first of all, at lot of work and maybe a lot of hassle too?” And she’d say “You had a comfortable life.” “Why start into something so complicated at your age?” My father thought it was a good idea. And he supported me in… in the process, and financially too. My eldest son was very supportive as well.
How were they involved?
I got some very valuable help from my son. If I had had to do it all myself, it would have been more difficult.
Any outside help?
I did seek some help from a coach for when it would be time to open… to make sure everything was ready to be able to open on time, to make sure everything had been taken care of.