subject: Choose Your Next Job! [print this page] I have a questionnaire I give to the majority of my new clients. Even though I know they are coming to me to lose weight or be a good parent or find out ways to be good to themselves for a change, 25% of the questions are concerning their work. Why is this?
For several people work is an important part of the backdrop of their lives, something that just needs to be factored in. For fairly a few it is a huge part of their identity, even.
So I like to bring it up in the questionnaire so that they, and I, will be able to evaluate the place of work in their lives; it's a bit like checking whether a client is single or living with husband, 3 children and an Alsatian - it does make a difference.
One among the questions is: if you didn't have your present job, what would you be doing? Few of the answers are really amazing; others (I don't know) make a few raised eyebrows.
You know what is approaching next. Yes, go on, ask yourself that question now! Send me the answer if you like :)
In my preceding career I trained teachers of English (as a foreign language). A couple of my trainees were inexperienced the employment market or were already teaching, and approached me to improve their skills. Most of them, however, had been working in other industries and had chosen that, in fact, they wished to do something unique, sometimes amazingly different. My job was to give them the basic skills, but my own personal secret mission (!) was to infect them with a sense that teaching English was the total most exciting thing they could ever do.
Having been like a midwife to virtually 300 people's new, or first, professions, one day I opted to try the career change thing for myself. The astonishing thing is, leaving behind an identity blissfully held for 20+ years turned out to be pleasantly simple.
A number of years on, I will honestly tell that pursuing a second career has (clich!) been a voyage. It's enriched my life to a great extent and taught me numerous things, one among them being that I am a not a natural entrepreneur ... Then again, since coaching people to have fascinating lives is even more exciting than teaching English, running a business is a price I'm prepared to pay :)
And the best thing about this is, part of my work now is to infect people with a sense that whatever change it is that they're making in their life is the complete most fun thing they could perhaps do
Certainly, an individual's work is just one among many areas of their life which might be well worth changing, although as it is a field which is really rich in thrilling possibilities, it is quite worth selecting a job that means something - to you.
by: Erik Teichmann
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