If you are alive you are in Transition & that includes our careers.
How are those New Year’s Resolutions working for you? Remember those? (“groan”)
You know what it is like when you talk to someone who loves their career? Someone who is excited and motivated and their energy is contagious? How do you get that and how do you keep it? Let’s back the year up a bit and take a look.
If you are driving somewhere nowadays most of us grab our phones and check: Is my destination where I think it is? How is the traffic? What does the timeline look like? Where are there roadblocks? Do I need snow tires/new wiper blades etc. And just because I went there yesterday does not mean I should take the same way, with the same timeline again.
When was the last time you did this for your career?
So instead of looking at Career Resolutions, let’s look at what you want your career and your life to look like and work towards that!
What will make you feel very satisfied this time next year?
What is the Purpose of your career this year? What Goals do you have?
If you are alive you are in Transition and that includes our careers.
Where are YOU in your ongoing Transition?
- Happily, employed and driving you career in a defined direction.
- Unhappily employed and looking for a new direction.
- Unemployed or underemployed and looking towards a known direction.
- Unemployed or underemployed and looking towards an unknown direction.
- Employed and your career is driving you and you have no idea where it is going.
There are a few other iterations but in general, we are in one of these 5 places.
“If you don’t know what it is you are looking for, it is really hard to find it. ” RK (me)
Let’s go back to the person whose energy around their career is palatable
54.6% of Americans are unhappy at work. No wonder we don’t know more of those people. Why is this?
One of the main reasons for this unhappiness is that we get on the road to our career and we just keep going and we are not in control of it. We don’t do regular periodic checkups. What happens when we don’t put gas and oil in our car? We stop reassessing our careers thinking that what we wanted when we were 25 is what we still want. Life happens and we kind of watch it go by and then wonder how we got here and where we are going. And we miss asking a couple of key questions on a regular basis:
Career Check-up!
- Am I happy in the direction my career is going?
- Am I headed towards something I want? What is that specifically?
- Am I good at what I do? Do I need to update my skills, knowledge, etc?
- Am I still energized by it?
- What would I like to do I am not doing?
- Is there is a market for the direction I would like & does it appear to be continuing?
- Does it work for the lifestyle I want?
These last 2 questions don’t get asked often enough and they are a lot of that 54.6% unhappiness.
If the answer to any of 1-4 is NO then it is time for Change, Evolution, Alteration – Transition…
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Rebecca Kieler
Career Strategist