I have been in finance for 17 years and it has gone completely stale for me.
I can’t stand sitting in front of a computer playing with Excel spreadsheets all day anymore.
Every morning I’m sick to my stomach when I wake up and find it almost painful to do my tasks at work.
I realize now that the business world is not for me.
~Worker Living in NEW JERSEY
Sometimes it’s the work itself and we have finally realized it. We just can’t or don’t want to do the tasks anymore. They have grown old on us. We need to take them off like clothes that are too small. This is good to know. We just need something new. Once we get to this point we will eventually start to get VERY excited, because NOW we can choose our next venture.
We can start preparing for the next thing.
As we progress on this road of finding our life’s work we can get really hung-up in looking for the next “job”.
We want to be doing something we think would be interesting, but it’s not quite what we’ve done in the past.
Then what happens? We don’t get any call backs for an interview. We don’t get any calls at all.
Then what happens? We think we need to go back to school or to get a certification or something to learn about a new field.
Then what happens? We are still stuck in our jobs we have outgrown, we have the credentials for a new field, but we STILL don’t get any calls for interviews.
BEFORE you do anything (and especially if you are thinking of spending any money on it) just stop and make SURE you are clear on your “dependable skills”. Those innate talents and skills that are with you no matter what you do or where you work. It is those skills that point to your life’s work. You need to blend those skills with tasks that you want to do.
Just don’t jump back into another “job” with different tasks too quickly… use this time to really search your soul for your life’s work.
You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live