It was one of the most difficult periods of my life.
On the surface, I had a great job in a well-known company. I 'd done what was expected of me post university. I 'd been promoted several times. I had a mortgage, I was travelling with work and had great prospects ahead of me.
Inside though, I was deeply unfulfilled. I wasn 't enjoying my work, I felt like I wasn 't using my full potential, and I longed to wake up feeling like my work was making a difference – to someone or something.
Yet, I didn 't have a clue what else I could do.
Indeed I 'd struggled on and off for years to figure out a way to change (making, it seemed to me, every career change mistake there was to make), but without making progress.
Eventually, as you 'll read below, I came out the other side. But it wasn 't an easy journey.
These are the lessons I learnt along the way.
What you need to know
If you 're stuck in your career change, there are three main challenges – or paradoxes – that you 're going to come up against.
1. It 's you that wants to make a change, but it 's also you that 's your biggest obstacle
In the depths of my despair about my job, there were signals from all around me that I wasn 't in the right place: I was embarrassed to talk about my work with others at parties; I couldn 't imagine doing my boss 's job (nor the one her boss had); and I was petrified that I 'd reach 60 or 70 and not feel proud of the work I 'd done in my life.
On a day-to-day basis, I just felt numb –
Task 4-
• In the 2011 Census, 63% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander households reported having an internet connection, up from 40% in 2006.
HOUSEHOLDS WITH INTERNET ACCESS
Almost two-thirds (63%) of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander households reported having an internet connection in the 2011 Census, compared with 77% of other households.
Broadband was the most frequently used type of internet connection for both Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander households and other households.
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new” (Socrates) . Everyone encounters change; it is not an if, rather than a when. People believe that they can change their path or what is happening around them. But, most of the time one cannot. So, they end up with a realization of what is truly important; what they should be doing or how they should be acting..
Everyone has heard the figure of speech, “to turn over a new leaf.” While many believe that people are incapable of changing who they are as a person, others debate that people do change over time, and who they are as a person is defined by their experiences. Ruth Baker, born Juanita Teague, transformed as her life progressed; however, she didn’t just turn over a new leaf. (Pappas) She grew a whole new plant.
As a result, my aptitude for a better life presented itself when I came to terms with my decision. I had earned good grades, got accepted to prestigious schools, unlocked new doors to my future career, and gotten closer to my
Through my contemporary years of being teenager, I struggled with change. More specifically, “change” as in observing it rather than adjusting to it. While change may be a cliché that many other applicants might have written about, it is not a topic, from my perspective at least, to dismiss so easily. Moreover, the challenge I dealt with is crucial to who I am mainly due to the fact that I continue this process to this day. The change I came to know never had a specific time frame; instead, it existed with me since my birth.
Focus 2 Assignment – Reflection
Upon completing the Focus 2 career assessment program, I am quite impressed at the quality of information it presents. It allowed me to not only look at careers that would fit my personality, but also those that take into consideration the fields I am already interested in. Also, as with any form of self-assessment, there were strengths and weaknesses that I did not expect based on how I feel I live my life currently.
Beginning chronologically, the program had me complete two subjective, current measures of my professional career.
How have I improved as a writer?
I am thinking about my action plan as a writer have I improved, have I met the goals I set out to achieve on my first day of class, and what have I learned in this class? I will go over my time in this class and review the various topics I mentioned above and more. Looking back over my time in this class I will critique and praise myself. How I felt about writing when I first started this class compared to how I feel now, I would have to say I am more comfortable with writing.
The prompt for this essay is quite simple: write about how your involvement in sports, community service, leadership, academics, and other extracurricular activities have affected your overall character. However, I feel as though this essay would be better if focused on my career in lacrosse and how it’s changed my life over the past five years, helping me throughout the good and bad, the simple and the challenging.
Lacrosse has been a part of my life for about five years now. I started playing when I was in fourth grade, simply because I wanted to branch out and try something new, exciting, and a little bit out of my comfort zone.
It took roughly five years for me to overcome my troubles and deal with the issues that had a hold on me, the “fruitful distinction that's the essential tool of social imagination” (Mills 2000:11). My troubles at that time were based on thinking that I needed a certain amount of money and a degree to before I could leave. Additionally, I had to deal with the fear of letting go of people who had a negative impact on my life (this turned out to be the hardest of my troubles). Most of my troubles and issues remained through my early motherhood stage, and they were never truly handled when I left. I was at a point in my life where I was tired of just being.
What I must remember that people are constantly catching me. Whatever I may do may be a role model inspiring others model for growth and change. Moving outside of my comfort zone can and will apply in every area of my life. If I want to succeed at a personal or organizational level then I must continually challenge myself, by trying new
It was at this exact moment when I experienced my watershed moment. It was at this exact moment when I realized how even the things that we hate doing the most, are absolutely necessary to us because they define who we are as a person. I realized the issue with my life was not that I wasn’t intelligent, or that I was untalented at gymnastics, or that I had poor multitasking skills or an inability to cope with stress. My issue was my inability to want to get the best out of the advantages that the sport brought me. I had lived my entire life without realizing that all the work that I was putting into the gym was to eventually gain something greater.
Don Draper, a character from the television drama Mad Men, once said, "When a man walks into a room, he brings his whole life with him. He has a million reasons for being anywhere, just ask him. If you listen, he'll tell you how he got there. How he forgot where he was going, and that he woke up. If you listen, he'll tell you about the time he thought he was an angel or dreamt of being perfect."
I learned that Occupational Therapy is not a career path I wanted to pursue because the responsibilities and are involved with Occupational Therapy does not seem like something that I would enjoy doing everyday. The variety of customers that came in was interesting and sometimes was very enjoyable, but for the most part I thought the job was very quiet and tamed for me. I found out I might enjoy a career that is mostly predictive, but something new happens every once in a while to keep things interesting. This contributed to the advancement of my career goals by helping me realize the type of work environment I feel would fit me the best and the job shadow also helped me figure out that even though Occupational Therapy can be rewarding and you are helping a wide variety of people, this career path does not suit me. There are other jobs out there that give me the opportunity to help people in other ways, as well as suiting my needs environmentally as well.
