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Career Change.

This is something many people lose sleep over. Rightfully so, we are all afraid of change. We have always been in a family business, and we had a hard time rediscovering ourselves. My brother and I were disenchanted with the furniture business. We had been in the furniture business since we were little kids. At the ages of 7 and 10, we swept my uncle’s furniture factory floor.

Got paid in honeybuns off the coffee truck…

If you don’t know what that is, you are missing out, trust me. While I made a fairly quick change, first from the film industry to writing books. My brother tried to establish himself in the business once more. However, when you know more than nearly anyone trying to hire you, they are in general intimidated, and it is not as easy as it would seem to work for someone else.

I took off at the first chance I had.

My break came pretty quickly. I was off to Indonesia to be COO for MD Pictures. The largest production house in Indonesia. My brother took a little while and some self-persuasion to make a change. Did he ever make one?

Going back to school at the age of 50 is hard.

I am proud of my brother to have finished his addiction counseling/coaching course. I severely doubt that I would have been able to do what he did. Yet, as always, dedication and persistence paid off. We are used to giving all in business as well as our personal lives. 

We were never afraid of hard work or commitment. As for my bro, I am proud of him because I may not have had the patience to go back to school. Months and months of studying, exams, and tests with a mixed-age class were never easy.

I never heard “I am giving up, or this is too hard.

Can you make a career change? Sure, you can. Get off your ass and go to do it. Easier said than done? Oh, hell yeah! it’s damn hard! Take a deep breath and dive right in, or message him and find out how he made it through school at the age of 50. The point is you too can make the change. However, make sure you do it for the right reason. Like him, I too am giving back and it feels good. Changing lives is interesting and fun. However, you do need the right mindset and support for you to be successful!

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Zsolt Zsemba

Zsolt Zsemba has worn many different hats. He has been an entrepreneur, and businessman for over 30 years. Living abroad has given him many amazing experiences in life and also sparked his imagination for writing. After moving to Canada from Hungary at the age of 10 and working in a family business for a large part of his life. The switch from manufacturing to writing came surprisingly easily for him. His passion for writing began at age 12, mostly writing poetry and short stories. In 1999, the chance came to write scripts. Zsolt took some time off from his family business to write in Jakarta Indonesia for MD Entertainment. Having written dozens of soap operas and made for TV movies, in 2003 Zsolt returned to the family business once more. In 2018, he had the chance to head back to Asia once again. He took on the challenge to be the COO for MD Pictures and get back into the entertainment business. The entertainment business opened up the desire to write once more and the words began to flow onto the pages again. He decided to rewrite a book he began years ago. Organ House was reborn and is a fiction suspense novel while Scars is a young adult drama focused on life’s challenges. After the first two books, his desire to write not only became more challenging but enjoyable as well. After having several books completed he was convinced to publish them for your enjoyment. Zsolt does not tend to stay in one specific genre but tends to lean towards strong female leads and horror. Though he also has a few human interest books, he tends to write about whatever brews in his brain for a while.