Time to make the switch? Does your current career no longer fit?
It’s no secret that some of you will change career quite a few times in your life time, statistics tell us at least 6 times.
However, some people fear the switch not because they aren’t perfectly capable and able, but due to being conditioned and believing these statements such as:
- ‘once you have a job, keep it’
- ‘it’s a tough market
- ’stick with what you know’
- ‘work hard and you’ll reap the rewards at the end, when you retire’
and perhaps the most damaging of them all
- ‘you’re too old to change career’
With those beliefs it’s no wonder some of you fear a career change.
Subconsciously the above statements are playing havoc with your brain, which in turn affects your behaviour and ultimately your goals.
You may find yourself limited and stuck just by having those or similar beliefs alone.
Isn’t it about time a change was needed? If not in your career right now at least by your thinking.
You see, not only do those beliefs affect career changers, for those not in employment they damage the potential possibilities that can be achieved.
What’s needed is to create some doubt in the negative power of the beliefs mentioned above, a little bit if uncertainty, a new way at looking at it.
See jobs are created to serve the needs and goals of someone else.
It (the job) only exists because it is needed at this moment and time. All that can change tomorrow.
Work hard to retirement and reap the rewards?
There are some of us who could not even imagine working in the same role by the time we get to retirement. What was once deemed a ‘job for life’ does not exist anymore, we all know that.
‘I am too old to change career’.
I’m going to put in some realism here and say, if I wanted to change into a ballet dancer NOW its a tall order, is it going to happen
According to my bones, no!
However I could be transfering skills and researching how I can match my love for ballet with the skills, information, knowledge and attributes I do have…open a school? Work in a theatre? Fundraise for a ballet company? And attend the ‘Bones Don’t Bend That Much Anymore Ballet Troup’!
I am being flippant. What’s old? Who are we listening to when we decided ‘oops missed that career by a day over last Birthday’.
The point, so many people want to change their career, and they never do, because they get trapped by beliefs that were handed down to them, or they have created.
If you’re considerng a change, explore. Research. And for goodness sake be aware of your thinking. When you are riddled with doubt and uncertainty, question those beliefs about ‘work’.