I'm in a career cul de sac at the moment. In a fairly decent job, flexi time, good pension etc. but I don't love it, a lot of the time I don't even like it.
I've been in this job for 7 years now and due to having 2 babies have made little career progression. I want to do something else, I just don't know what. I don't know what I am capable of. I'm far enough out of uni that my degrees are becoming irrelevant.
I've been reading a few books and articles along the lines of the idea that you should be in a job you love (e.g. Screw Work, Let's Play), or that the way forward is the portfolio career, combining different things you love.
They increase in me a dissatisfaction with my career (my mum says it's not they books causing it, they are just mirroring it). I am pretty well educated (MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience), I did so well a school, I was always destined for Big Things, and well, it hasn't happened.
But do we have a right to be in a job we love. It's a fairly modern concept isn't it? Traditionally we have just worked to survive.
I don't want to though. I don't want to look back and wonder what I have done with my time. I just don't know how to distill what I want and then do it. There are so many things I want to do. I'd really like to do another MSc, in Occupational Psychology. But time and money are a barrier, especially with two little ones.
What do you think? Put up and shut up, be grateful I have a job? Try and figure what else I want to do?
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DillyTante · 21/04/2012 11:56
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