change my career

I’ve done a lot of office-based work (typing, secretarial, etc) which has mostly been unsatisfying. I’ts taken me most of my life to figure out what I actually want to do as a career. I met an OT on a course I was studying and the more she told me about her work was the more I realised that this was what I wanted to do. I wanted to find out more, so I visited some OT departments at hospitals & best of all, I got an opportunity to shadow a trainee OT who was visiting clients in the community. It was great.

I’ve now been accepted on a training course, which starts in September. I’m really looking forward to it, but I’ve had a few setbacks in the past, so I’m also a bit nervous that something might happen to stop me from succeeding.

So, I’m now at the stage of doing paperwor, getting vaccinations updated, etc. Watch this space…

In 7 years since I have graduated with my BA, I have climbed up the ladder and obtained my MS. Unfortunately, it took me a while to realize that I am not well suited for my position. It is corporate and political and I am diplomatic so I have survived, but it is not a fit in the least. I am going to 2 different counselors to try to find out where I should go next.

Let me know if you have any ideas…or have been through a transition.

Myers-Briggs – INFP
Holland Code – SAR

I’ve been in the IT Software field for 14 years. I got into it because I knew it was a field where I could make money. However 14 years later I’m miserable and realize I should have gone into a creative field. That’s where my passion and strengths lie. But to be honest at age 36, and making a really good salary, I don’t know how to go about this. I am married and my husband works a job he loves with a pretty good salary. But we do have some debt that we need to pay off, so I feel selfish wanting to change to a career that pays less money than I currently make. But I’m so miserable I know I have to change something soon.

It took almost a year to change careers – but I’m so glad I did! I found a great job that I’m enjoying, and I feel like every day I’m really learning a lot.

I need to start studying the things that will help me get a new job. And I need to stop doing the things that are distracting me from doing my job better. Because otherwise I’ll keep doing what I’m doing now, which is not what I want. Firstly I need to read a good book about it. Then improve my maths.

It’s worth taking the risk to find my passion

I know this was the right decision to make for personal as well as financial reasons. While I’m not sure at the moment if it will be forever it’s the best move for now. But, sheesh, am I cream crackered or is my name Jacob? Perhaps one of these days I’ll get a day off…

Wow. Life is chaos. As a surprisingly positive footnote to my last entry on this goal I’ve received a phone call telling me I was successful at yesterday’s group interview stage and would I be able to come to a one-to-one interview tomorrow? Yikes! I can’t believe it’s all happening so quickly, especially as we were told it would take at least a few days to find out if we had made it through to the next stage. It’s all so fast I have no time to get nervous about it (which is doubtless a very good thing). So 9am tomorrow marks the final hurdle. Better start limbering up!

Well I’m not over the moon with how I fared at the group interview yesterday. I was pretty nervous to the point where ice-breakers felt like neck-breakers but I’m hoping I came across better than I think I did. It’s weird, I used to be quite confident in interviews or at least not scared of them…I think this working from home lark does more harm than good. I feel too out of the loop. If I did get this job I’m pretty sure that I’d find my self-belief again soon enough, I just hope I get the chance.

First round of interviews this Thursday at the place I used to love working at years ago. I feel happier just thinking about maybe getting to work there again, and if I get the chance I definitely intend to stay long-term and work my way up there. Here’s hoping!