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Is your work satisfying, fulfilling and meaningful? Are you using your favourite skills and talents? Are you passionate about your work and does it reflect who you are as a person? If so, congratulations, you’re one of the lucky ones who has followed their dreams and discovered their ideal job. However, for many people this unfortunately isn’t the case. Lots of people feel bored, unmotivated and unfulfilled with their current jobs, but may not know what job would satisfy them, or feel they’re unable to risk leaving their current job.

Often people don’t move out of their comfort zone, for fear of making the wrong decision by changing careers. It may seem easier to stay with a job you already know, with people you’ve already met and knowing when your next pay day will be. However if your career is making you miserable, it’s probably time to have a think about whether moving out of your comfort zone is a risk worth taking for your future happiness. After all, what’s more important than your happiness?

If you simply don’t know what career would really excite you, it may be worth spending some time exploring your values and beliefs to find out what matters most to you and then research jobs that match those values and beliefs. When you discover the job that does match your values and beliefs, work will become enjoyable rather than something you dread doing. Everyone has the opportunity to choose their own career path and to change it if their current one is not fulfilling them, so only you can decide to stay in a job that makes you miserable, or seek out one that will make your days far more meaningful and pleasurable.

The following questions may help you to decide whether it’s time to do something about your current career:

What do you want from a career apart from money?

What percentage of the time do you feel positive at work?

What do you enjoy most in your current job?

What do you wish you could do in your current job that you don’t already?

What do you enjoy doing when you’re not at work?

What career did you want when you were young? Is this the career you have now?

If you imagine you’re old and are looking back on your life, what job would you like to see yourself doing? Is it the one you currently have?

How can career coaching help?

Life coaching will allow you to explore who you are and what you really want from work, and therefore help you to find out what you’ll need from a job to fulfil you. You will then have the opportunity to investigate possible career options and formulate an action plan of how to get you from where you are now to where you want to be.

Anyone unhappy in their career can benefit from career coaching, whether you’re in the first phase of your career and unsure of the direction you want to head in, or in the height of success within your career but feel unfulfilled. It may be that you discover how to feel more fulfilled in your current job, or decide to change careers completely. Exploring your values and beliefs and what makes you happy in your work will often lead to the right decision for you.

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