Stuck In A Job You Hate?
Posted on April 19, 2015 by Oscar Chimenti, One of Thousands of Career Coaches on Noomii.
Feeling stuck in our careers or not knowing what to do with our lives is paralyzing, let's figure that sh*t out.
Ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting through the wind, waiting to start again? When Katy Perry came out with this song, I never really understood it because I was living smack dab in the middle of it.
How often does your alarm clock go off and you are just aching at the thought of going to work? Do you ever feel excited to wake up, make breakfast, jump in the shower, put on clothes you hate and hop in your car so you can zip through traffic to get to work on time?
Why do we do this to ourselves? Ive done it. Worse off, I used to take the commuter bus to work along the highway and dread the thought of being late because of the terrible winter and icy roads. Only to show up at a job where I was constantly yelled at by customers over the phone. It just created more anxiety for myself and I felt sick and nauseous thinking I was going to go through this the rest of my life.
Sometimes we feel there is no hope of making a change because we can’t afford to leave our job, we can’t take the risk of following our dreams and we can’t do what we love because everyone will think we are crazy.
MAKE THE DECISION TO START TAKING STEPS TO FOLLOW YOUR PASSIONS
IT WILL TAKE SOME WORK BUT IT CAN BE DONE
You will hear people tell you to just dive right in and quit your job, do what you love and the money will follow. You will also have others telling you you’re nuts, whose going to pay your rent? You have bills to pay you know?
Maybe you don’t have to dive right in and quit your job. Can you follow your dreams while holding down your job? Or, find another job that is more suitable while you take steps to figure out what you love to do?
What if you you hate your job but don’t know what you should be doing? Then what?
We often don’t know because we haven’t explored deep enough into what is really important to us and how we can go about making money by doing what we love.
The first step is to figure out what your values are and explore work that is in alignment with those values. You don’t have to quit your job to figure it out, you just have to take action to explore what’s really important to you. Don’t worry about everything else that follows, the key is to take the first step and start exploring.
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