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Sue Clarke on Careers
Being a Personal Coach, I help lots of people to move on from jobs they find unsatisfying to ones that renew their 'buzz' for life. One of the reasons I can help people is that I know what it feels like to lose the buzz and find it again.
I know the excuses you can give yourself for not moving on. I know how easy it is to convince yourself that what you've got is not so bad after all. That if you move it might be a huge mistake, frying pan into the fire stuff. And I also understand that the older you get the harder it gets: the more there is to lose. Add to that a growing fear of job uncertainly, and sometimes I know it's easier to keep your head down in the job you've got than risk change.
I also know how staying in the wrong job can deplete you, how it can relentlessly take away your energy. How this feeling can spill over and start to take away your zest for life in general. I know how being in a job that depletes rather than enhances your energy can be like living a slow death. I've looked at the painting by Edvard Munch, 'The Scream' and felt a resonance! And the scary thing about all this is that sometimes it can happen and you don't even notice.
I know about being in the right job, too. The 'click'. The feeling of flow - that what you do matches what you want to do. Where that irritating cliché, 'problems are opportunities' is true! Where rather than hearing clanging, discordant notes in your head, you hear harmony. Where time flies, and it's a positive feeling.
There's a huge difference between being in a satisfying job and an unsatisfying one. Below are my top tips to help you avoid being in the wrong job, and you can also read Diane's story - one of my clients who made the leap and rediscovered her buzz.
