Stuck in a career you hate? Then it’s time for a Career Intervention!
I hear it all the time: people complaining about their jobs. Truth be told, they often whine about their jobs. They feel like they are prisoners-shackled to the career that was once a chosen path. The path was determined years earlier based on: a) family tradition (“five generations of Smiths have been attorneys!”); b) hopes of affluence (“why else would I have spent four years in law school?”); c) genuine interest that has since waned; or d) the path of least resistance (“I didn’t know what else to do”), but now they look back and wonder how they got to this point. Often they have achieved what they went into the career for-success, affluence, the respect of family and peers-but they are not happy. They lack two key ingredients that make for satisfaction: fulfillment and passion. Yet they don’t leave.
