Get Paid Doing What You Love(Hint: it’s your great work) So, you hate your job, your career is the pits, you’ve past the point of no return and you are surprised how you get out of bed each morning, yes? Right-i-o, this is for you, read on… What if… You woke up, sprang out of bed and actually looked forward to the tasks ahead of you that day. Sprang? Is that a bit of an exageration? Okay, you didn’t need to bang the alarm 30 times, or get angry at your phone because you keep having to pressing snooze. What if… You were to able to say to friends and family: ‘I love my what I do, no really, I do!’ And you really did mean it, no sarcasm at all. What if… What remained of your 100,000 hours spent working in a lifetime actually did make a difference? How many hours?! I know, it’s scary huh? 100,000 hours, on average, give or take a few, a lot of hours to be miserable. What if… Those big plans, dreams, goals, passions could all be cleverly crafted into creating a role that makes sense and meaning to you? What if… You made a difference in the world and got paid for it? Possible? Or just another airy-fairy dream? I’m going to stick my neck on the line and say yes sireee totally and utterly 100% possible, oh, within reason i.e. you want to be Superhero (but who am I to judge, for all I know you may have superpowers. Do you? Cool!) Or you think that the role you really want can happen over night with no work, no sweat, no hard graft. Can we assume, and be realistically positive, that all careers have a teeny-weeny-titchy percentage of tasks (jobs) that need carried out that aren’t, well, welcomed. What would would be your ideal? Would you be happy with 90% love, 10% not keen but you do it because the 90% inspired the hell out of you and rocks your socks off everyday? That would be okay, huh? 80/20 maybe? What Does Career Success Look Like to You?
Soul Destroying Work Working a career you hate is the pits. (I’ve been there!) Working a career you hate, knowing you are capable of more, and doing nothing about it is just ludicrous. If you’re thinking ‘but it’s too hard‘ or ‘it’ll take a while‘, then you can’t afford not to read this. If you’re thinking ‘I have so many ideas, it’s which one to pick‘, then accept the fact your multi-passionate and let’s work to ensure that parts of them are all being used. Have you reached the point of no return? 
A Visual of the Soul Destroying Work! Is Sunday is ruined by the ‘Long Dark Dinner Time of the Job Haters Soul’. Monday arrives every week on time and passes ever so slowly. Tuesday disappears down a dark abyss and on to… Wednesday you nip out at your lunch break thinking ‘what the f**k am I still doing there!’ You pick up on Thursday after it’s the day before… Friday, it’s not that bad is it?! You’re the free you on a Saturday and then before you know it’s Sunday again. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. No, sorry, that is no way to live a life. What should you be getting paid for? Do you know? Or do you know it’s not what you currently do? Want do you really want to do? Do you want to work for someone else, for yourself? Is it time to for a complete shift, a new direction? Do you have passions that you think may make a profit? Ach geez…so many questions. But, you need to answer them. Sorry to be a bossy pants, but if you want to take this seriously, erm, well, you have to get serious. Not serious as in heavy, deep, and navel gazing. See, on this site are plenty articles on the technical ‘how-to’ of change careers: employability skills, cv’s, branding, using social media. And yep, they are useful. But. That’s the details, that’s the easy part. Before all that, comes you. And surprise, surprise, most folks skip over the soul searching work. Wrong-along! Are You Caught in The Trap? Before you dive in, can we clear this up first: most people assume that getting paid for something they love is something they will never achieve, they’re caught in the trap. The trap (once in) is hard to break free from. Not impossible. Just hard. Because a complete mindshift is required (and dare I say it, sacrifice!) Some of you are prepared for that to happen, some of you will read this and then do nothing. Imagine back to the time when you first entered the work place, did you have any idea what you really wanted to achieve? Did you think for minute you would be desperately unhappy and stuck? Did you ever think that you would become another cog in the wheel, that you would become another one of the po-faced commuters that you vowed would never happen to you? The Big Mistake That Others Make Please don’t make the common mistake of ‘applying’ for a new role because the old one makes you unhappy, without doing the work on you. You’ll probably find that very quickly the new role is the same as the one you left. In my professional experience, many people change their role, or the place where they work thinking they have made a career change, a few months in, they realise they are still miserable. What happened? Same shit, different wallpaper. The decision to make a career change is usually not something that happens overnight. You know that, it’s not love the role one day, and hate it the next. It brews, bubbles and simmers under the surface, reached when you decide enough is enough and life has to be different. And yes, when the brew has been simmering away for 10, 20 years that’s not great news. What’s Here for You? A hug? Sorry! Well, having worked a l-o-n-g time as a careers advisor and emplyability worker there are plenty career-sy articles, tools, resources and ‘how to’s’ for you. That’s the detail. There’s also plenty on figuring out what you want your career path to really look like and how to make it happen. One of the things that really upsets me and frustrates me is when I see the most gifted, amazingly talented, unique and inspiring individuals shy away from what they can become because of what they think others will say when they step and follow their true life purpose and passions. So here’s some stuff to get you started… DO YOU ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT CAREER WOULD FIT YOU LIKE A GLOVE? Get free access to the core values workbook, perfect for you if you have plenty ideas but have no idea where to begin. NEED HELP & LIVE IN EDINBURGH? Attend a careercafe, held monthly, here’s the post to read all about it, and you’ll find a link to find out more. ON A MISSION? KNOW WHAT YOU STAND FOR Get your head focused. Write your mission statement, it happens in business, so why not careers? Know your big why. GET OUT YOUR COMFORT ZONE If you want change, you may need to step up. In order to do that, you might want to get out the comfort zones that are keeping you held hostage. FINDING YOUR AUTHENTICITY Are you on the outside, who you are on the inside? To find what you truly love, you may need to get rid of the layers and be true to yourself. Read about authenticity. GET YOUR GOALS SET, THEN READY, GO! Goals, outcomes, plans, intentions – call them what you want. Have you set any recently? Do you know how to? This is the first post in a series of seven to show you how. WHY YOUR CV IS GOING IN THE BIN (and what you can do about it) Sign up for the updates and get access to this free report and other resources to help you kick start your new career. FREE 20 PART E-COURSE ‘PASSION AND PURPOSE’ Click here to read more and sign up.
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