Abstract
Objectives This study attempted to explore and understand the meaning of the experience and the characteristics that made happenstance events an opportunities for middle-aged women to make career decisions as psycho-logical counselors.
 Methods This study selected two middle-aged female psychological counselors who responded that they made career decisions based on happenstance events and attempted to interpret, analyze, and understand the experi-ences of the study participants through the narrative inquiry of Clandinin and Connelly(2000). Narrative inquiry is a qualitative research method that explores the stories of individual humans' lived experiences for human under-standing(Hong Young-sook, 2015).
 Results Participants in the study experienced happenstance events, recalled dreams that they had not achieved on the journey of their lives, and experienced new challenges. Looking at the meaning of the experience of living an happenstance event through career decision, Lee Eun-joo was a ‘process of self-realization’ and Kim Hyun-joo was a ‘process of overcoming inferiority.’ As a characteristic that led happenstance events to career decisions, Lee Eun-joo stood out for her ‘will to stand under my name’ and ‘husband's support,’ while Kim Hyun-joo had ‘yearning for professional jobs’ and ‘passion for learning.’ In addition, all of the study participants received ‘family support’ and had ‘reflective awareness of middle age,’ which supported the middle-aged study participants in the process of making career decisions based on happenstance events.
 Conclusions This study is meaningful in that it was possible to comprehensively understand how happenstance events lived through career decisions in the context of individual lives, along with the situation of middle age, re-garding the career decision process of two female psychological counselors who changed their careers in middle age. It is hoped that the results of this study will expand to understanding the career change of female psycho-logical counselors and middle-aged women who have changed their careers in middle age, contributing to the process of dealing with happenstance factors in counselor education and middle-aged career counseling.
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