Our experience provides unparalleled insights into the realities and demands
of professionals. That expertise means we can support your career success,
whether within your profession or outside it.
You can establish your natural abilities, your inner motivations and
values, clarify job expectations,
discover reasons for inner conflict or stress experienced in past or present
jobs, and identify essential components of the "ideal job".
However,
finding your niche is not about any particular job. Such information isn’t
helpful: it doesn’t drive decisions. People who have been through a lot report
that they change their lives or get clarity when they become conscious of w2hat
kind of person a certain job/industry/lifestyle is turning them into.
So the relevant
question is not about WHAT you will do, but WHO you will become. What belief
system will you adopt and what will take on heightened importance in your life?
This personalizes the stakes and makes it a lot harder to lie to yourself and
ignore the points of conflict.
People who’ve
found their place don’t talk about how exciting and challenging and stimulating
their work is. Their language invokes a different troika:
meaningful/significant/fulfilling. And they rarely ever talk about their work
without interweaving some of their personal history, explaining how the two are
related.
Most people are not struck with an epiphany. Most people
have a slim notion or a slight urge that they slowly nurture until it grows into
a faint hope which barely stays alive for years until it can mature into a
vision. Most people feel guilty about wanting what they want. They think they
are foolish for wanting something impossible. Those censoring voices will bark
like a pack of junkyard dogs, night after night.
If you have a thread of a desire, don't doubt it because it
comes to you as a whisper. Don't think, "If it were really important to me, I'd
feel clearer about this, less conflicted." Research on career transitions
doesn't show that to be true. The things we really want to do are usually the
ones that scare us the most. The things you don't feel confident about are the
choices that leave no one hurt.
It takes a
while to learn who we are and for our latent talents to emerge. Certainly we’re
better off and will contribute more in a situation that fits us. In the
meantime, we can challenge ourselves in various environments and use them to
find out who we are.
