Taking Inventory

“To All the Jobs I’ve Loved Before”

While I have some amount of shame/self-consciousness around my career switching, I can’t help but feel like there are strong positives to the transitions that I’ve made to date, that might ultimately have resulted in my feeling more settled in my current role. While the external perception of career switching has improved, if it doesn’t lead to more internal satisfaction, then is bouncing around really a great move?

There have been roles and companies that I’ve been really ready to leave, but in retrospect, they’ve all provided valuable experiences, that have in small ways contributed to some element of self-discovery, and illumination of the things that I like to work on and am good at, and the things that I am not so good at, and should either learn to do, or outsource (revisit my post on weaknesses here).

And if you’re here, on the precipice of wanting to make a career change, and feeling a bit overwhelmed… I think a good starting point is to take inventory of your past experiences to date. You can ask around externally for all the advice in the world, but you know yourself better than anyone else, and your own assessment of what has worked well for you in the past and what you’d look to replicate in the future is going to be a valuable starting point before getting external feedback. You can start to tease out the commonalities, the interests, the highs and the lows, without the noise of what you should do, or even what’s in the realm of possible…

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