Career
Career. Are you engaging with the word career as a noun or a verb?
The work I do as a coach enables professionals to identify, name and claim a clear career pathway for themselves. What many clients feel they have been doing when they arrive before me, is ‘careering about’ in their professional world. Or even observing themselves career off into diverse and perhaps random directions…..
I know this was the case for me before I was able to identify my own career pathway. I had spent 20 years wondering just what thread joined the seemingly random decisions I had made in my diverse career life. I could not see what joined all these differing jobs, roles, positions, environments, sectors and levels of seniority. In my eyes I could see no thread and thus I wasn’t making any progress. I was floundering and I was feeling like I was failing.
Now (and hindsight is a wonderful thing!), I can see that I had spent that 20 years gathering all the elements that now enable me to be a self-employed career coach and clinical supervisor. I now know having worked in personal development, advertising, Human Resources, sales, customer services, The arts, in community development, that they were all leading me here, to this place where I sometimes find it difficult to believe I actually get paid to do thing(s) I adore.
What would have saved me a lot of heartache would have been to have somebody who could have enabled me to know that nothing I was doing was wasted. Had I known how I could harness all those experiences and use them to honour my core values and my professional purpose in the future, I might have enjoyed the journey an awful lot more. Had I known that the trials and tribulations were purposeful professional development, I might have got this this place with more elegance and grace? Who knows, I might have had a much happier heart had I known everything I learned was contributing to a bigger, fulfilling career picture.
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