A career change is a move into a completely different line of work. Make a career change, a late career change.
It usually costs money and status in the short term and is regretted far less often than staying. A career change is easier to explain than employers pretend, since most of them have made one.
1nouncareer changeA move into a completely different line of work.
“She made a career change at forty and trained as a midwife.”
career change is a move.
Practised in Work & Careers