recareer

verb

1. To change career, especially to something unrelated to one's previous profession.

   “To […] the late Dr. Jose Gallardo, commissioner of education, Puerto Rico, who recareered into law at the age of seventy; […] to the late Roby Kidd, who recareered from being a YMCA director to being the world president of International Adult Education; […]”

   “People will literally stop working for a year or more, perhaps at age forty or fifty or even later, not so much to refresh and renew themselves for their current careers or jobs but to begin the process of re-careering, choosing to enter completely new lines of work.”

   “Although there is modern career theory to support this cohort of workers, it is not being used in an effective way for older workers who recareer from an organisational role.”