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The Christian O’Connell Show

MINI: Career 180s

The Christian O’Connell Show

iHeart Australia

Music Interviews, Comedy Interviews, Music, Comedy

4.7820 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

While the team is away on their break we're taking a look back at some of our favourite bits! Like when a text about career changes led to this! Career 180s.

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0:00.0

Got anything good?

0:02.6

Hi, this is the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

0:09.7

I want to talk to your next half an hour about Career 180s.

0:12.7

We've got a lovely text on one of you yesterday.

0:15.1

In Patsy's news yesterday, Worcester's, I think you had some stats packed about people who

0:20.3

later on their life really regret that they feel trapped in the jobs that they kind of didn't think they'd be doing for the rest of their lives.

0:28.3

Yeah.

0:28.5

And they wish they could have gone back.

0:30.3

Yeah, about a fifth of people or something when they were surveyed.

0:33.3

About a fifth thought, no, I wish I hadn't have done this.

0:35.8

And it's too late to change now once they're in their 50s. And then Trish said that she's in her 60s and that's not true.

0:42.7

She did a career 180 where she was a cleaner and she went back and retrained and she's now a

0:47.1

teacher's aide and has never been happy and she's in her 60s. So I'd love to hear from people

0:51.8

during the next half an hour. It might motivate someone today, but actually it's never too late. And there are so many people who've got these really

0:57.9

amazing stories about Korea 180s. There's a friend of mine who was my first mentor in radio

1:03.2

and one of the best radio presenters there's ever been called Tony. And he used to be, he used to

1:08.6

have a massive radio show in the UK in a city called Newcastle.

1:12.4

Newcastle was a big, very, very well-known and a city in the north of England.

1:17.8

Tony's breakfast show was so big there.

1:19.7

You know how the ratings were.

1:20.9

It's a percentage of how many out of a universe of 100%.

1:24.1

How many are listening to your radio show?

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