While trying to figure out my next career move, I took a day off to visit my old stomping grounds, and shadow a high school counselor. {yes, it was a stretch}
The fact that I was ready to leave my current job - super clear. What I was going to do next - complete f-ing mystery.
I was vacillating between approximately 19 different "job ideas" at the time.
Somewhere in between exploring getting my MBA and massage therapy school orientation - I decided to check out the real life of a high school counselor.
I was at a stand still in my current (awesome on paper) job, and growing more and more unfulfilled. {where my successful and unsatisfied soul searchers at}
So I blocked off some time to explore this little direction on a day that was wide open a few months in advance, and I made …show more content…
Great.
Shadow high school counselor for a job I am just a teensy bit curious about (and tell my boss I can’t do the call, where she will be less than thrilled)… or just re-schedule my little experiment and hear The Edge's voice?
U2 FOMO IS REAL.
Not sure what made me do it… whether it this was the final straw that the defiant voice in my head was screaming “no - I will not give up something for “me” for this job again”… or the fact that I knew if I didn’t truly commit to finding work I loved now, I would never do it.
But the very next week I found myself sitting in my high school counselors office and discovered two important things.
1) I did NOT want to be a high school counselor (do you know how many detention slips they have to write??).
2) I was committed to finding work I love, even if that meant giving up a call with Bono.
And it was in that moment, that I found the clarity I had been searching for.
I started to immediately understand what I wanted to do next, and what I DID NOT want to do next.
What I was willing to give up and what I
The fact that I was ready to leave my current job - super clear. What I was going to do next - complete f-ing mystery.
I was vacillating between approximately 19 different "job ideas" at the time.
Somewhere in between exploring getting my MBA and massage therapy school orientation - I decided to check out the real life of a high school counselor.
I was at a stand still in my current (awesome on paper) job, and growing more and more unfulfilled. {where my successful and unsatisfied soul searchers at}
So I blocked off some time to explore this little direction on a day that was wide open a few months in advance, and I made …show more content…
Great.
Shadow high school counselor for a job I am just a teensy bit curious about (and tell my boss I can’t do the call, where she will be less than thrilled)… or just re-schedule my little experiment and hear The Edge's voice?
U2 FOMO IS REAL.
Not sure what made me do it… whether it this was the final straw that the defiant voice in my head was screaming “no - I will not give up something for “me” for this job again”… or the fact that I knew if I didn’t truly commit to finding work I loved now, I would never do it.
But the very next week I found myself sitting in my high school counselors office and discovered two important things.
1) I did NOT want to be a high school counselor (do you know how many detention slips they have to write??).
2) I was committed to finding work I love, even if that meant giving up a call with Bono.
And it was in that moment, that I found the clarity I had been searching for.
I started to immediately understand what I wanted to do next, and what I DID NOT want to do next.
What I was willing to give up and what I