Career Change Motivation

You are in search of career change motivation. Well let me start by saying that you are a conformist. You have not thought for yourself. You were told how to choose a career. And none of that matters.


If you find yourself really hating your job or chosen career you have to decide if you have the guts to make a change. Where is this career change motivation going to come from? It comes from within you. This involves actually training your brain to help you make these decisions. Getting a job or changing careers is a mental battle. Your success will be determined by many factors including your confidence, perseverance, ability to connect with others, ability to understand yourself, your ability to understand the job market and many other variables.

Two of your greatest skills are your attitude, which you choose, and your flexibility. Career change motivation is influenced by both your attitude and your flexibility, which are controlled by your thinking. Until you understand more about your thinking you will act as you have always acted, and you will see things as you have always seen them. And you may just find yourself right back in the exact same place as you are now.

You need to exercise patience and learn how to change your thinking; and think your way to career success. But there is more to understanding why you are looking for career change motivation.

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I had to laugh when it became time for students in grade nine to start actually picking their courses for high school. I can think of one girl last year who thought she was going to be some big doctor of something or other. I am not saying she can't be. But she was simply fixated on how much money this position would earn her. Is she even remotely suited to this type of career? Who the hell knows? Here is the typical career advice you experience in school.


You start hearing the questions from parents, teachers and the guidance counselor.


“What are you going to do when you grow up?”
“What college are you going to?”
“What are you going to major in?”


You also hear things like,


“Get a degree and you’ll be set.”
“College is the answer to career success.”
“College will get you a high paying job and respect from the rest.”


They just follow the path, not even realizing that it is trap. In short we are taught to be conformists. Don't rock the boat. Don't ask too many questions. And whatever you do, don't learn to think for yourself.


The doctor or lawyer resents his/her career because they are working 80 hours a week and they have to work just to support the lifestyle they now live and to pay off the enormous student loans they had to get to finance their education.

And what of the student who choose to pursue one of the ten hottest careers, chasing the money. Money does not buy happiness. Most people spend more then they make. They are in debt up to their eyeballs. Sure, on paper their income looks good, but they do not have two nickels to rub together.

And let's not forget the debt incurred to finance all these glorious degrees. The average is roughly the same as paying off a loan used to buy a brand new entry level luxury vehicle with no money down.
You can blame the education system up to point for pushing you to follow the traditional path. It is not teaching people real world skills. It is out dated.

A real education system would match students with interests and would help them find a career path that was best suited to them based on their personality, their values and their strengths. It would teach them to think. But this is an ideal world I am dreaming of.

Ultimately you are the one who is in a job that you hate. And it is up to you to find the job or career that you love. You were just too young to realize this when you were in school. You had people whom you thought had your best interests at heart advising you on what to do. One of the main problems is that we are never taught to think for ourselves. To take responsibility for our lives and our decisions. We are masters at making excuses and blaming everyone and everything else for our failures or shortcomings.

Most people will cling to jobs they hate like life jackets, afraid to take risks, afraid to leave the safe job, and further compound their misery by piling themselves up in debt racking up purchases with their credit cards after being led to believe from advertisers that it will make them feel better about themselves. They still have the conformity mentality. Conformity is safe. You are helping the economy after all.

What we need is a career placement test that focuses on our personality, that addresses our strengths and weaknesses, our personal core values.

Now, there is absolutely nothing wrong with going to college as long as it fits in with what you believe in and it helps you achieve the life you want. If you insist on sticking in a job you hate it is going to affect all other areas of your life. Your relationships, your family, your health and stress level and your finances. You need to find the career change motivation within yourself to make this happen.

Look at it this way. Would you spend one day in an environment that you knew to be toxic? I thought not. Then why would you spend every day at a job that you hate?

You have to be true to yourself. It is up to you to find what you love to do and to either start your own business and make a job out of it or find a job that fits within your beliefs.

It is up to you to question conformity and to find the career change motivation within yourself.

Either way, the choice is yours. Nobody can do this for you.

And the next time your someone says, "I really hate my job", send them this article.




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