Are you looking for your purpose or are you looking for a job? A job, including being a business owner or freelancer, is what you do to generate income. Your job can be awesome or boring, lucrative or underpaid, inspiring or soul sucking. Your purpose, on the other hand, is much bigger than any job or business…
Inner Journey
Unhappy at Work? Here’s How to Tell Whether the Problem Is Your Job or Your Company
Do you want to change careers? Are you absolutely sure your career is what is making you unhappy at work? I wrote this post about changing careers for Glassdoor Blog, you can read the original here and find more of my advice featured on Glassdoor Blog here. From my own career change to the stories I hear from my…
The Most Important Lesson I Learned About Changing Careers
A few years ago I joined a coaching program to help me increase my income and in the process I ended up changing careers. As many coaching programs out there, its main philosophy was that we are 100% in control of our lives. Work hard, no, work harder, set a goal, do everything you can…
How to Trust Again
Working with career changers, I often hear questions that betray a lack of trust. Sometimes the person stuck in a career they don’t like does not trust that there will ever be a right fit. They might ask: “What if nothing I like pays enough?” or “What if I just don’t fit in, ever?” or…
What The Lord of the Rings can Teach us about Changing Careers
I recently watched the entire extended Lord of the Rings trilogy again and it got me thinking of how we can apply its timeless lessons to our career quest. First a few notes: I am referring here to the extended versions of Peter Jackson’s movies, not the books, although most points will apply to both…
