CareerMysteries

Career change is hard at any age.  Rethinking what we want to do for the rest of our career lives is a practice you should undertake at least every few years.  Ask yourself the tough questions.  Are you happy doing what you are doing?  Is each day a drudgery?  Are you bored and no longer challenged by your job?

At some point, you will know it is time to make a change, though this does not mean you must leave your current employer.  Consider other positions internally before you even start looking elsewhere. Talk to your HR department about the possibilities, but just inquire, don’t threaten to leave or put all your cards on the table until you are ready to do so.

The saddest thing to me, as an HR executive, is to see someone wasting away mentally in a job they hate.  Often times, they feel locked in because they know they can’t make as much money anywhere else.  If this sounds like you, why not consider retraining or going back to school to try something better or more interesting?  Staying in a dead end job hurts you in every way.  The stress of this could cause you to develop diseases that might not have set in, under different circumstances.

So put yourself out there and change your career.  You will not be sorry.

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