It has become ingrained in our culture that we need to “Follow Your Bliss” and “Do What You Love” and all sorts of other platitudes. Don’t forget that you have to have your Dream Job. And yeah - I believe that you 100% should do the things that bring you joy and that light your fire and yeah, that you’re passionate about. But I do NOT agree that you need to make your passion your source of income.
We get all excited and motivated about a new job, a new role, a new company and we swear it will be different… until it isn’t. If it takes it Back to School “season” to make you feel motivated to make a change - do it! Learn the new thing! Take the new job! Figure out what you REALLY want and go for it! Anything to help you feel motivated in making change and finding your career passion.
There are lots of reasons for getting demotivated in your career. You're probably out of inspiration and wanted to just lay out on your couch all day. It is totally understandable, everyone goes through it at some point. But here are some tricks you can do to get back getting inspired on your job because it's important to get inspired on a job that you love.
Your job is being eliminated - WTF do you do? Technologies, industries, and markets all change. If you are in a role that is being diminished due to change what do you do after a job loss? Reinventing yourself and starting over after a job loss is terrifying but here are some tips you can do to handle a job loss.
