Cure for Career Insanity — What are you scared of?

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February 16, 2012 by 1 Comment

Cure for Career IinsanityThe first step in the cure is:

Defining the Problem: What are you running away from in your current position or role? Is it the boss? If it is the boss what about the boss causes you to want to run away? Is it the work environment? What about the work environment?

However, we cannot get to step one until we understand what are the barriers to change. There is a great Harvard Business Review post that I posted on my Career Pivot FaceBook page several weeks back called “Why you will not quit your job“. The author’s assertions are the following:

  • You have been conditioned.  You will not leave because you think it will get better.  You have been conditioned to believe this.
  • Your losses are more visible than ever.  If you leave and screw up everyone will know it!  Ain’t that scary!!  I will be all He also asserts that most of us are risk adverse.
  • We suffer from premature optimization – We want to go to the highest peak first. We do not want to take manageable steps.  We want it now!  Therefore, the task in front of us is daunting and we get scared away.

Does any of this sound familiar?

Do you look at changing jobs, careers or even roles within the current company as daunting?

What if you took it in steps or pivots off your current career or job?  You homework from this post is to list the top three barriers to change in career or job. Go ahead and give it a try!

What are you scared of?

My next post will be defining why you want to leave.

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Comments

  1. Tammy says:
    February 17, 2012 at 5:11 pm

    Defining the problem is definitely the first step. Whenever I get frustrated with a job, I consider changing companies. Then I realized that I don’t want to change jobs for change’s sake, I want to be in a BETTER position. The next step then ends up being your “define the problem”.

    I can’t see myself doing a similar type of position as to what I am currently doing for the rest of my working career, even though something similar to what I do probably still will be around for 30 more years, and I’m good at it. But, what I do like about my current position is the fact that my job stays at work. I never think about it outside the office.

    That is what I’m afraid of: That my new role in life will cause sleepless nights. How do you decide if it is worth it to have work play a larger role in your life if it means you actually are doing something that is mentally stimulating?

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