I’m currently many many hundred miles away from home at the business headquarters, and I have to say that I had a pretty good day.
Without getting into too much detail, I had a great presentation to the leadership (I’m awesome), and I interviewed for a new position (which went awesome), and to finish off the day I had girly night with my friend Erin and it was lovely! Now I’m about to go to sleep in my Holiday Inn Express bed, and, to top it off with a cherry, First Wives’ Club is on Oxygen! (only the best movie ever).
Why is it that right when you think it’s all over and you have decided to throw in the towel, something changes that pulls you back in and makes you reconsider your entire thought process? I hate it when that happens. I hate the roller coaster effect of career satisfaction.
So the question is: should you consider a career change when you are down and you hate everything (which is the time when you most want to do ANYTHING ELSE but what you’re doing now); or do should you wait until things turn around and you feel more optimistic (therefore giving you a more objective perspective on said change)?
I still believe that an 180-degree career change would be good for my soul. It would make me feel like my life is MY OWN. That I didn’t just follow a path that someone else set up for me and that I do have the power to make a change. It would prove to myself that I can do ANYTHING. This change would make my life feel SO long (I had a corporate life, I had a teaching life, I had a [whatever comes next] life). I am so afraid of continuing to ride this roller coaster and never make a change… I don’t think I could live with that.
I’m conflicted, but I’ll ride it for as long as it’s fun. We’ll see what happens next!
ina
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