How to Navigate a Career Change and Find Your Life Purpose: A Psychic’s Own Trust Fall
What if the uncertainty you’re feeling isn’t a roadblock but an invitation to dig deeper into what truly lights you up? As a world-renowned tarot reader, psychic medium, and licensed cosmetologist, I’ve guided thousands of clients through the twists and turns of major life changes over 20+ years, and I know the challenges and rewards of a career pivot firsthand.
Anticipating your next question: yes, I’m steeped in the paranormal and spend my days immersed in the intuitive collective consciousness, and the truth is even psychics can’t read ourselves, close friends, or family. Why? Authentic guidance has to be unbiased and free from ego (maybe one day!). When choosing a new direction, uncovering your purpose requires that same openness and curiosity, which is exactly why I use tarot for everyday decision-making rather than self-diagnosis.
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How Do You Find Passion in Unexpected Places?
My first career skill was “too weird” to count. It counted.
As a teenager I had an unusual talent: psychic readings with startling accuracy, traded for money and sometimes food whenever my stubborn adolescent quest for independence left me flat broke. A viable career never crossed my mind. Reading people for a living was always too weird.
Like many people, I felt lost in a haze of uncertainty and anxiety, haunted by the possibility of making a “wrong” choice, watching others thrive while I struggled to find my path. The way out started with looking back at the core of what sparked joy for me. Childhood photos showed an expressive kid, always creating something, imagining characters, pulling my brothers into elaborate games.
I jotted down anything that felt meaningful: geology at first, then the supernatural, parapsychology, film, and finally hair, the last two seeming most conventional and easiest to envision myself doing. (Seeing yourself in the role is where it all starts.) The exercise transformed my fear of uncertainty into excitement, proof that joy could be a guide. Within five years I was working confidently on film sets as a hairdresser for Netflix, Disney+, Marvel (before Disney got ’em!), Universal Pictures, Amazon, and Hulu. Career strategists reach similar conclusions the analytical way, as Forbes’ guide to changing careers shows.
My career highlight came on season two of Schmigadoon! for Apple TV+, working with actress Dove Cameron. Nobody advocates a trust fall in life harder than she does, having found her greatest success on the far side of transforming vulnerability into strength (a Capricorn specialty, for the record). We waxed everything supernatural, psychological, hair, and film; it felt like a hot summer camp working at the circus with Addams Family kin. We wrote each other goodbyes on Post-its. She made me cry, in the best way, for being truly seen. That chapter taught me the universe rewards those who dare to trust themselves.
Is It Ever Too Late to Change Careers?
From toy giraffes to oncology at 40. Really.
One story from my salon years will stay with me forever. A client in her late 40s came in to celebrate her husband’s graduation, and the road to that graduation began at a comedy club years earlier.
The comedian asked her husband what he did for a living. An investment banker who didn’t want to be roasted for his profession, he joked, “I make toy giraffes for a living.” The comedian roasted him anyway, and the exchange hit harder than expected, sending him spiraling into questions about his time, his legacy, and his contribution to his family.
Days of isolation in the basement followed. He emerged with a revelation: “I know what I’m supposed to be! I want to be a doctor.” His wife, pregnant with their second child, was concerned and supportive in equal measure. At 40 years old he enrolled in medical school, fully committed, and today he’s a successful oncologist helping people every day. It is truly never too late to start over, a conclusion Harvard Business Review’s work on career transitions supports with rather fewer giraffes.
How Did a Psychic Reading on a Film Set Change My Career?
I asked the universe for a sign. It sent Toni Collette.
After ten years in film, I felt the pull to pivot again, and this change felt scarier. My identity had fused with my role, and every peer I told asked, “What are you going to do?”, adding a layer of uncertainty I hadn’t expected. I knew what I wanted: to be there for people, to work with clients, to honor the paranormal insights I receive, and to write full time.
The shift began one morning on the drive to work. Frustrated and lost, I asked aloud, “What should I be doing with my life?” I needed a sign, a direction, something that would finally click.
That day I was doing hair for Toni Collette, an actress I deeply admire. At one point she asked if I could give her a psychic reading, and I agreed. The reading touched her, and as she processed what came through, she looked at me and said, “You need to do this for a living.” Instinctively I replied, “I don’t know, it’s pretty weird!” She laughed. “Acting is pretty weird, but here we are. You should do it!”
Only on the drive home did it hit me: she had answered the exact question I’d asked aloud that morning, and the answer arrived through the iconic actress who played the mom in The Sixth Sense. The universe has a sense of humor about these things. Within a week I launched my website, started sharing my journey on Instagram, and took my first steps toward professional mediumship. Being on camera made me uneasy; I embraced it anyway. Wondering whether intuitive work can be trained rather than stumbled into? Psychic Source explores exactly that.
What Are the Steps to Find Your Purpose? A Countdown
Four moves, saving the leap for last.
In the midst of a career change, or simply unsure of your life’s purpose? These are the steps I found transformative, counted down to the one that matters most.
- Ask yourself the big question: Write down “What should I be doing career-wise?” and let it sit. Don’t rush the answer; live with the question and notice what rises intuitively over days and weeks.
- Transform fear into curiosity: List everything that brings you joy, however unrelated to career it seems. Foods, colors, experiences, places, people. The list taps your subconscious, which holds answers the conscious mind overlooks, and it rhymes with the Japanese concept of ikigai, the sweet spot where love, skill, and purpose overlap.
- Trust your intuition and look for signs: Revisit old photos and childhood memories, glimpses of the unfiltered passions that existed before societal pressure took over. Your younger self holds wisdom for the person you’re meant to become. Researchers at Greater Good back this with seven science-tested paths to purpose.
- Take the leap: Trust the process and jump, even when it feels unconventional. Consistency, commitment, and wonder open doors when the time is right, and a labor of love eventually brings abundance even when the first paychecks are thin. Practical scaffolding for the jump lives in Indeed’s guide to switching careers.
Your purpose may reveal itself slowly, in stages, as you commit to trusting your instincts and stepping in the direction that feels right. When curiosity replaces fear and intuition gets the wheel, you’re laying the foundation for a life of meaning, fulfillment, and deep resonance. Feeling overwhelmed at the crossroads? Tarot can help you find balance and let go.
Ready to dive deeper with an unbiased guide who has made the leap twice? Book your personalized tarot reading with me today. Remember: it’s never too late.
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Chris Bennett is an internationally recognized psychic medium and tarot reader, widely considered one of the best in the world. Through The Tarot Medium, he reads exclusively online for clients across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, with more than 200 published articles and hundreds of five-star reviews to his name. His work blends evidential mediumship with the grounded symbolism of Tarot, always as a supplement to good therapy rather than a replacement for it.
