Land A Better Job Post-Haste
Have you noticed that we talk about “finding work you love” here a lot? Last December 15 we addressed job boredom and the 4 Basic Needs Your Career Fulfills. On January 15, we gave you that great line from the movie, Up in the Air, “How much did they pay you to give up on your dreams?” And on January 14, we urged you to Leverage Your Passions even if you can’t figure out how to monetize them yet.
Finding work you love makes you whole, as well as successful. Your gifts and your passions reveal who you are, which is a unique person with something special to do on this planet of 6.5 billion people.
“You are here at this time in history to make a mark that only you can make.” –Simon T. Bailey
You Have A Box
You possess a box filled with your gifts and passions. Have you ever been in a job where you couldn’t use some or all the items you brought with you in your box? If so, maybe you placed the box at the door. You figured you’d just grab it on your way out that evening. You might have even been a little sad about it at first, but you quickly got over it. After all, you needed that job to pay the bills. Or maybe you felt too self-indulgent to give up the job in order to go find another one that would let you “play” with what’s in your box. You dove into the work at hand and forgot about your box. In fact, you got so much into the identity of the new job that you ignored your box as you passed by it everyday. Your box of gifts and passions had become invisible to you.
My partner, Jay, likes to point out that when you leave a job, you’re either leaving with a box or in a box. However, these boxes are literal. Today, I want to ask you – whether you’re employed right now or not – have you forgotten to retrieve that figurative box of gifts and passions that you might have left sitting at the door a long time ago?
Land a Better Job Post-Haste
Some job seekers say they’ve been comfortably numb to any feeling of incompleteness. They’d traded sense of purpose for “security.” When we suggest to a client to use his gifts and passions while looking for his next job, he’ll have an epiphany-like realization that he had a box of ‘em once somewhere. Then we get to work helping him find that box first… Some job seekers explain to us that in their last positions they were bored or frustrated, but there was a nagging feeling which wouldn’t go away – a feeling as though they were missing something (and, of course, they were!). A client in this situation will have a renewed sense of purpose when she reclaims what was missing, and as soon as she weaves her gifts and passions into her job search strategies and tools, she lands an even better job post-haste.
The Challenge
So what about you? Have you been working in a career or job that A) hasn’t fulfilled you or B) wasn’t secure after all? We challenge you to reclaim your gifts and passions. We challenge you to make YOUR mark at this time in history. And we challenge you to answer this: What is one step that you can make today in order to do that?
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Angela Loëb is an author, speaker and career coach. She and her partner, Jay Markunas, help people make successful career transitions through seminars, webinars, tele-coaching events and individualized coaching services. Listen to them on The Job Search Boot Camp Show. Find out more about their programs & services at www.greatoccupations.com.
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