Career Change

Career change is a hot topic as our working life takes up 50% of our time and depending on our career sometimes more. As we only have one life to live then do you really want to spend 50% of it being unhappy or unfulfilled? In regards to career change it’s important to really think about what you want from your career life and decide how this fits in to what you want overall from your ideal life. Many people will stick with something because they feel they have to or that it wont look good on their CV if they keep moving around. It can be difficult to assess what kind of career change will make you truly happy. We are certainly not equipped with these kinds of decision skills at school. Life coaching can really help you decide how to make a career change by getting you to focus on what is really going to fit with your values and your ideal life. It’s important that whatever career change you make you make sure that it fits in with who you are and what you want overall from life. Here are some initial questions to help you decide how to make a career change:

Assessing your current job

• Am I working too much or too little?
• Do I earn enough money?
• Do I feel stressed or under pressure?
• Do I dread going to work? Why?
• Do I feel trapped in my job? Why?
• What do I love about my job?
• What do I hate about your job?
• I’m in my job because…
• The talents I use and I don’t use in my job are?
• Do I need a career change?

Finding a new career change path

• What are my top 5 values? Your values are things like family, money, friends, honesty, love, happiness, etc. 
• What are my 5 dream jobs?
• 5 things I love doing?
• 5 things I’d love to try doing?
• What do I love to do so much that I’d pay for it?
• Write a list of the people you’d like to emulate.

The answers to the above questions should have started to help you to create your ideal job brief and have got you well on the way to seeing how to make a career change. This is a really good start in deciding whether your current career is right for you and what you should be doing if not. Obviously further work is needed to establish your options but I hope this gives you a good start.

Remember, it’s important to pick out a career, which meets with what you’ve identified as your values, skills and passion. Successful people tend to not separate who they are between their work and personal life. You must find something, which arouses passion and makes you excited about going into work rather than dreading it and living for your holidays or weekends. You need to make the career change work for you.

It is difficult to be motivated and courageous when you feel trapped and anxious so it may be that you need to do a lot of work before you are ready to break away and take that step into your new career change but life coaching can really help you make this leap of faith and feel safe about going for it. You owe it to yourself to live the best life you can and not feel held back. So get started on your career change today.