Why Changing Careers is So Damn Hard?

Have you ever wondered why even when you KNOW that the change is necessary, somehow you are not DOING much to actually change it?

This is what happened to me in my corporate job.

I felt bored.

I stopped growing.

I lacked meaning.

I knew I needed to change something.

But for 3 years after I’ve reached that point of my career, I did literally nothing.

Well, actually not true.

I was discussing it over dinner with my husband.

I was complaining a lot to my friends.

And I still did nothing.

Until one day enough was enough and decided I could not take any longer.

I needed to DO something.

I remember joining few free webinars of some career coaches.

And I ended up investing in one of them a good amount of my bonus.

We worked together for a couple of months. The result of coaching was that the easiest (and logical) solution for me was to go to another bank.

The other less recommended by that coach solution was to change my career and work in a totally different field. However, as he was not specializing in career change coaching, we left it there.

I tried changing to another bank but soon after I’ve received the job offer, I realized that it would not really change much (apart from the office location and the team).

The idea of the career change was really scary, totally illogical and, hence, I did not even consider it.

Interestingly enough, soon after I’ve concluded that my job was not that bad.

It was lots of advantages.

It was stable.

Safe.

Relatively well-paid.

Why change anything at all?

Unfortunately, that thinking did not last long. Within few months I was back to being dissatisfied, bored and lacking meaning.

I was stuck in a sort of cycle which I now call the Cycle of Change.

As you can see, whether you want it or not, on your way to making changes in your career, you will reach stage four - Fear.

We are all creatures of habit, not change.

Thus, any type of change will trigger us, big time!

As soon your logical mind picks up any vibe that is outside of the comfort zone, it will get triggered.

It will try to protect you using all possible “logical” arguments:

-??What if it won’t work?

-??What if you’d lose out financially?

-??What if you’d be less successful?

-??You’d need to start from scratch…

-??You don’t have any relevant experience..

-??You need some extra qualification to be even considered…

…and so on…

All these stories are clearly logical (to your logical mind), hence, you believe in them.

This is how you move to stage five of the Change Cycle -Amnesia.

This is how you get stuck.

How can you use this information to serve you?

For a start, know that you are not alone.

All people who went through any type of change in their careers have experienced this cycle. Guaranteed.

But how have they broke out of this cycle?

By admitting that growth and fear goes hand in hand.

If you want to grow in your career, you’d feel fear whether you want it or not.

It is natural.

If you wait for the moment, when fear would disappear, you would wait forever.

It is about treating fear as a sign that you are on the right track.

You feel the fear and you do it anyway.

The only thing to add here is that you can make changes in your career faster and easier by letting experts to hold you hand and show you the exact way how to make a successful change with confidence and ease.

And this is where I can definitely support you.

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Irina

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