By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
And what can you do instead?
This is Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, and you’re listening to the number one podcast in Apple podcasts for job search, No BS Job Search Advice Radio, and welcome. Next Tuesday, big day, episode 1800. I am more than two to one on the next show in Apple podcast on job search.
No other show is close to me at this point. And it’s gonna be tough to catch up because I keep going out seven days a week and unless they do multiple shows per day, it’s gonna take a while to catch up. This one is one where someone’s trying to figure out if it’s okay that they made a bad career choice.
I hope you find it helpful and give it a great review wherever you listen to the show because so many of you are languishing in careers that they’re robotic at this point and I’m not sure there’s a lot of thrill left in them. So, this one’s for you if that fits you. And with that, let’s get going.
I want to talk with you folks who are unhappy in your career, who are wrestling with what feels like a difficult decision. You’ve got a sunk cost. You’ve invested time and money and education in doing something only to discover it really isn’t for you.
What do you do? How do you do something different? And the first thing I want to say is number one is figure out whether it’s the work or the company that’s an issue and the way you can do that is by talking with peers or individuals at other organizations not to complain and whine and moan but to talk with them about what they do and notice whether it’s any different than what your experience is I mentioned this because sometimes the energy in a particular firm just doesn’t sync with a person’s energy I know at times I’ve worked in organizations where I just felt spectacular most of the time and then two-thirds of the time it just felt like drudgery and I had that investment in time that as a salesperson I knew that people knew where to find me and how to find me and I didn’t know how to separate myself out and not lose a lot of money by trying to go out on my own or changing firms for you as someone who’s unhappy the first thing is really talk to others to see if it’s the work or the company is it your boss or the work now let’s work with the assumption it’s your boss well you can interview with other organizations and try another firm and if you run into the same scenario again you can tell it’s the work now let’s assume you’ve already deduced that it’s the work and I want to remind you that beating up yourself feeling shame it doesn’t really help all it does is it immobilizes you to do nothing and to wallow in the feeling rather than take action the action I’d like you to consider taking you start jotting down some of the things you like and don’t like about the work that you’re doing don’t like is always going to be easier because those are all off the tip of our tongue like is often harder but what attracted you to the field in the first place when you were going to school to learn this profession what did you enjoy what do you enjoy in your current job or organization start looking for the positives there because you want to apply those in the in the next situation and avoid the negatives I’m going to suggest that you get a coach to help you through a process of evaluation and assessment of other types of alternatives you can pick someone local to you you can meet with you can contact me I’d be happy to coach you but the notion that you need to figure this out on your own isn’t really the smart way to go you will get distracted you will lose focus you will backslide and continue doing things that make you unhappy unless you get support along the way now a coach can be a wife-husband partner a very close friend who you’re not going to push away it could be someone who with expert knowledge in a field that you’re interested in whomever it is not a mentor by the way but I’ll deal with that another time but think in terms of someone with some expertise in either the profession you want to look into or who has an expertise in career transition and reach out to them and start paying for service I want to say paying for service because things that are done for free often aren’t treated as seriously as things that you pay for and even if it’s you know taking someone to dinner all the time to have the opportunity to talk with them or writing a check now to them whichever form it takes not coffee just not enough skin in the game there yeah it’s encouraging to keep going further but when you pay for the service there’s desire that is involved with I don’t want to have wasted this money and not done something with my time and effort so get out there start talking to folks get some support around this through coaching through a wife-husband a partner through an expert that you know and start taking action but the first thing behind everything is shame is not going to help you. It’s going to mobilize you in your pity and it serves no useful purpose
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