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anyone seen a careers/ life coach

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Cappuccino · 07/10/2008 11:33

dh says it is good idea

however I am miserable pessimist whose response to having no income after October is 'I'll get a Christmas job in Woolworths and bury head in sand about longterm issue"

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Blackduck · 07/10/2008 11:37

can I join you? But not sure about the Woolies bit...

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Cappuccino · 07/10/2008 11:40

yes

this can be our Change Our Life and Find Employment Thread

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Blackduck · 07/10/2008 11:43

So Cap what do you do now and what do you want to do?
Me - IT - trainer and tech architect, currently freelancing (but not working that hard at it...) Want, I think to go into project management, certainly back into an office environment. No travel....

NappiesGalore · 07/10/2008 11:43

lol. can i join in and half heartedly do employment woe stuff if im still hopefully a fair way off the change of life?

NappiesGalore · 07/10/2008 11:44

(my best pal from school saw a life coach thingamy years ago and she is pretty darn successful at whatever she decides to do)

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Cappuccino · 07/10/2008 11:45

arts marketer

currently freelancing but contract running out; I have been for a couple of jobs v recently and not only have I got them, it means that the available opportunities have been filled - very, very few local, part-time vacancies

so wondering what the feck to do next tbh, short of waiting for a couple of years for the bastards who got my job to move on again

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Cappuccino · 07/10/2008 11:45

my ambition would be to have my own desk with my own drawer with my own teabags in

sad I know but have been freelancing for 5 years

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NappiesGalore · 07/10/2008 11:46

there was a life coaching for mothers woman i found through mn once and signed up for... then deferred till i stopped having a nervous breakdown, then eventually got a refund from. doh!

Blackduck · 07/10/2008 11:51

I did a career change weekend about a year ago - was very good, so I kind of know what I do and don't want, just how the hell do you get the job!!???
Cap - where are you? if near London could try a career shifters evening

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Cappuccino · 07/10/2008 12:01

I am so far away from London

I can drive for an hour and hit Scotland

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Cappuccino · 07/10/2008 12:02

"just how the hell do you get the job!!???"

well yes. I have got more than a whiff of desperation about me

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ranting · 07/10/2008 12:03

No, but I really NEED to see one. Have realised (sort of) what I want to do and the fact that my current p/t job pays well and is fairly secure means that the credit crunch has rather put the kyboosh on my plans.

Not a great time to be considering a new career.

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Cappuccino · 07/10/2008 12:08
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ranting · 07/10/2008 12:10

Lol, sorry, am pissing all over your thread there. I meant I don't feel it's a good time for me but, maybe I should just bite the bullet and do it anyway.

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Cappuccino · 07/10/2008 12:11

yes do it

be poor and destitute with me

we have our dreams to keep us warm

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hanaflowerate3scones · 07/10/2008 12:11

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ranting · 07/10/2008 12:13
funnypeculiar · 07/10/2008 12:14

I did a couple of free sessions with someone who was training to be a life coach - they have to do a certain no of sessions before they can qualify. I was very sceptical & did it as a favour, but actually it was very helpful to have a dispassionate, external voice ask pertinent (& difficult to answer!) questions...

Spidermama · 07/10/2008 12:15

Hi Capp. I had a feeling this might be you.

I've wondered about this too but didn't really know where to start. I'll watch this thread with interest.

It's difficult to imagine anyone but me being able to work out what I should be doing for a living tbh.

I really want to be in creative control of whatever I do and ideally do it from home but then I think, yes, me and ten million other mums.

I think you should set aside time to meditate before you hire a life coach. That's my plan anyway. Empty your mind for half an hour a day and see what comes into the space you make for it.

But then I'm a hippy so it works for me.

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Cappuccino · 07/10/2008 12:21

you know Spider we were meant to be together

I am going to a meditation class on Thursday

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Boco · 07/10/2008 12:24

I'm seeing one atm - well talking to one over the phone. She's training so it's free. Had two sessions so far and it's been good and motivating - but I feel like there are a billion obstacles to everything so some of it is just sorting through those and putting things in order. Am still mostly just confused though. But I have an ACTION PLAN. And some SMART goals. And right now i'm working so that's good.

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Cappuccino · 07/10/2008 12:28

at the lot of you with your free trainee life coaches

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Blackduck · 07/10/2008 13:00

The weekend thing I did was good (but I didn't follow through - slaps wrist) - it does make you think and they are not going to tell you what you should do, they are going to facilitate the process where you come up with the ideas......
I am going into one of my 'I'll never work again' funks which is NOT helpful......

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Cappuccino · 07/10/2008 13:01

oh I will join you Blackduck

we can go on shopping trips to charity shops to buy dressing gowns to shuffle about in

I'm just wondering how to fund our life while I am doing all of this

my wage takes care of the mortgage; dh's does everything else

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