From Engineer And Educator To Watchmaker – Celeste Wong Changes Careers After 50

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From Engineer And Educator To Watchmaker – Celeste Wong Changes Careers After 50
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Wong shares her career change journey and insights she has learned along the way:

Wong shares her career change journey and insights she has learned along the way. The bolded, underlined sections are highlighted by me as particularly relevant to aspiring career-changers:You started thinking about a career change 14 years ago. Did you leap, or was it a gradual move?The move was gradual. At the time I was considering making the change, I was running my first company, an engineering education center.

I was regularly selling a few every Saturday and gradually added new designs. I would come back from these art fairs so stimulated and exuberant I knew the career shift was imminent. To my great surprise, I informally put my engineering education company up for sale in the Summer of 2016 and it sold right away. So it was full speed ahead on Celeste Watch Company by October of that year. I’ve wanted to be a watch maker since I was a little girl.

read every book I could find on the subject, and over the next five years, as my skills improved, the ideas flowed too.When I decided that I wanted to start my own brand, the single most helpful resource was myself. I’ve never felt I had to unlearn anything but this business certainly required a different approach in marketing, primarily.

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