Are you feeling career happy? Satisfied with your job?

Are you feeling career happy? Satisfied? Having a dream career job and enjoying work life? No? Why not?  For some reason a lot of are not feeling it. The work changes we are experiencing are far greater than they were a generation ago, that the potential to get and hold onto a long-term high earning position have been significantly degraded. How secure do you feel about retirement, buying a house or investing in your kids education? If you’re not worried, you’re not really paying enough attention. In the past, if you wanted it and worked hard for it, you got it.  You got the job, the salary, the benefits, the long-term employment commitment, all of the goodies. Not today. Not by a long shot.

I’m just pointing out that, until perhaps 15 or 20 years ago, the achievable ideal of midlife and career for most educated people was one of privilege, success, and affluence. You could easily get into a real govt or private sector job with free perks of housing and car at a Managerial level with good earnings, but those office jobs where are they now? Climbing a false ladder  on the steps of basic education, 85-90% marks in HSE, higher degrees, specialized courses maybe an MBA, each step leading to better job prospects, but then why are we not feeling relaxed, relieved or triumphant? Career bliss?

No? Why? Because things have changed.

So think twice before pushing your kids on the same path. What we need is to re-access our values our needs and expectations. Feeling like a rat chasing the cheese? We are losing work faith as a generation stuck in a career puzzle preached by our teachers and parents based on what was true in that generation, yes it was a good formula then, but does it still hold good now? This is troubling. We don’t know, we are not sure. I truly believe that we can achieve financial security, success, and satisfaction with our working lives. To get there, though, we need to rethink what it means to work. Getting empowered means discovering where we are, adding value in the business world on our own and executing a personal strategy for extracting that value from others in our business work.

In a lot of cases, this is not going to involve having an actual secure real salary-paying job. It’s difficult, as it would involve challenging the set value and paradigm set in stone! Good old fashioned jobs these days for people are a bit harder to find than they used to be and their long term prospects are not as secure as anything we might have imagined a generation ago.  Today we don’t wait for information that our parents waited and researched going to Libraries and reading reports, we just google ‘it in literally 12 seconds! We don’t anymore buy a newspaper do we? Or see a steno typist hammering away? When was the last time you found a cobbler for mending your shoes? All those jobs don’t exist now. But we do download apps, use Whatspp and shop for tools & toys using ebay? (My own weekend story) These are new jobs of our times, yes but they are not really office jobs as we were told, but they are self employment options.

I think self-employment is going to be our ticket out of career puzzle, out of our unwanted midlife crisis. What does self-employment look like for you? You have more options than you realize. Maybe the whole idea frightens you to death. I understand. But, if you look at the alternatives, the idea of supporting yourself through your own initiative and value creation might start to look at lot more appetizing.  Are you ready to empower yourself in midlife? Let’s start the journey. Our coaching..