The ART of finding a career you love!
Why did you choose the career you are in? Was it because your parents ”suggested” you go into that field? Or, maybe you were good at something? That’s what it was for me.
In 8th grade I took a computer class. It was an old (well…new at the time) computer terminal hooked to a mainframe computer. Our teacher had first showed us how to play games. Then he showed us how to chat with someone on the other end. At lunch each day we could come in and use the computer to build our skills.
One particular lunch, I sat in the computer lab trying to chat with someone on the other end so we could play a game together - remember, this was a different era. Before Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and even Internet Relay Chat (or IRC). I typed in the command…something like “Hello RS3239″ (some computer name). I received a response! I was chatting, but it was more commands than “chat”. I typed in another command, and another, and another! I tried to play a game with the “person” on the other end. Little did I know it wasn’t a person on the other end.
The next day the teacher asked “who was on the computer at lunch yesterday?”. I proudly said that I was. I had figured out how to chat with other people. However, I learned that I had somehow gotten on to the high school’s computer and erased some of the grades in the system (remember…before firewalls!).
My fate was sealed. From that point on I loved the idea of computers. I was going to be a Computer Scientist. Little did I know what that meant.
After a degree in Management of Information Systems and “doing computers” for years, I came to realize this wasn’t my calling. I had just done something that was easy and natural to me. The jobs in computers didn’t energize me. I was dragging myself to work each day. I was coming up with any reason to call in sick, come in late, and just glide through the motions. Eventually, I found myself drifting from company-to-company trying to figure out why I didn’t love my job.
Fortunately, I heard of a Career Coach who worked with people who hated their job. I didn’t “hate” my job(s), but I sure wasn’t waking up energized each day! I started the process of finding a new career path. I read a book called “I don’t know what I want to do, but it sure isn’t this!” (boy, was that true!). I hired my own Career Coach, and made the transition. I am happy to report that I am extremely satisfied and fulfilled in my career!
Tonight (Dec. 2, 2009), my partner (Angela Loeb) and I will leverage what we’ve learned in the career transition process to you. In “The Art of Finding a Career You Love”, we will use the same DISC Assessment that I used to make my career transition. We will use the CareerFinder Method(TM) Workbook - which is a set of fun exercises designed to help you get clarity on your career. We will explain the process and the tools used in a 90-minute tele-coaching event. It’s powerful. It’s fun. It’s life changing.
If you are ready for a career change - you’re bored, drifting, tired, burnt-out, or just know there is something else that excites you, then please join us for this event tonight. Sign-up quick because we’d like you to take the DISC before you join the call tonight. Visit http://www.CareerFinderMethod.info.
