Dare To Change Your Career
Are you having a career that makes you feel like something is missing?
Do you feel unfulfilled while doing your current work?
Do you feel you are trapped in your job just to make up a living?
If you answer yes to any of the above questions, you need to read this article.
Life is too short to live it with dissatisfaction, and it’s full of other options that you need to explore it, get focused and take an action.
The good news is that the average person will change careers 5-7 times during their working life according to career change statistics, so don’t worry, you are not insane or irrational, you are still a normal person if you are thinking of shifting your career.
Let’s differentiate between a job change and a career shift.
The job change means you make a change within the same profession for different reasons, sometimes you are looking for a better physical environment, higher work level, different work content, nearer location, another boss or flexible working hours and many other reasons.
While career shift means you are changing your profession, like changing from being a doctor to a T.V presenter, or from working as an engineer to a marketing strategist, and it usually happens when you feel that you are not in the right place and that you could give more in a different filed.
There are some core beliefs about career shifting:
- Every job is temporary.
- Success doesn’t guarantee satisfaction.
- There’s only one person you need to impress with your career –it’s you!
- Your network is your net worth.
- It’s never too late
Some people start their career thinking that this is the job of their dreams and when time passes they turned to be miserable, some dare to shift their careers, and other allow the fear to control their lives, fear of failure, fear of change, fear of imprecation and fear of success sometimes.
Before you start taking actions toward changing your career, there are some steps you need to follow to live the life you want to live:
- Explore your personality type, talents, and strengths.
There are many ways to create awareness about yourself, starting from scientific personality assessments like (DISC, strength finder, VIA, Enneagram, and many others), having a deep exploration talk with a coach, or a mentor and the simplest way is to list down the strengths and talents you think you are having. - Find your passion, you need to know what really makes you happy while doing, and find out how could you turn it to be either a job or a profitable business.
Don’t miss your true calling. - Turn your fears into faith
It’s all about overcoming your fears, the inner voice that always tells you, you are not good enough, you have a stable job, why the change? Your job is more prestigious, what is the value you might add? It’s too late and lots and lots of this kind of frustrating inner talk, on the contrary, you need to have faith in yourself, uplifting yourself, believing in yourself. - Plan for the change:
– Mentally: By being prepared mentally for the change and its obstacles
– Financially: By being ready for paying the checks for sometimes.
– Socially: By networking and finding connections in the field you wish to join.
– Skillfully: Search for the educational opportunities and needed training that would bridge your background to your new field. - Just take the action
You will never discover whether your decision is right or wrong unless you do the change, and it’s not the end of the world if make a wrong decision.
Life is a couple of trials and errors.