What do you want to be remembered for?
As we follow the treadmill of life through our various stages of adolescence through to adulthood, the question that usually is on our minds is often ‘what’s next?’ How do we get that dream job, new house etc.
Let’s take a step back.
The modern world is competitive, and the importance of being ‘the best’ is drilled into us from an early age.
Unfortunately, what we do not realise is the negative effect this whole experiences causes. Constant striving for greater achievements is actually harmful: both for ourselves in our wellbeing and in our professional career.
we owe it to explain these realities to those coming through the education system expecting big and bright things society has promised them, only to find an impossible job market.
Remember the excitement of our first day at work, or taking up a new hobby – When was the last time you experienced that? If it hasn’t been for a while, perhaps you might want to think about finding something new to do to rekindle that creative energy.
If you feel like you’ve got some room for some inspiration, why not learn a new hobby or skill?
As the old life-script goes, we are born, we go to school, we work, we retire and we die. The suggestion is that we spend the early part of our life learning, until we hit the working age where we are ‘doing’ until we retire.
In modern times however, this script no longer works. Unfortunately our education system was not built to prepare us for these new realities, pushing us to focus on what we are ‘good’ at, rather than developing the skill of getting better at what we are ‘bad’ at.
Today is the last day in my current role before moving to a new, exciting job on Monday.
And yet, I’ve spent very little time celebrating everything I’ve achieved in my current role, nor taken much time to celebrate finding gainful new employment.
You’ve joined your new team, excited to make a fresh start and prove yourself. Unfortunately you weren’t aware of what awaited you when you started. Weird and awkward communication styles in the office, rumours of team members not getting along and a boss who you should never disturb
Here are ways to survive a toxic and dysfunctional workplace.
If you’re in the UK, you’ve probably just come back into work a bit bleary-eyed after a long weekend with the bank holiday. It’s a nice novelty, considering as a country we have one of the lowest amount of public holidays in the world.
We usually appreciate the feeling of having some time off, so this is a good moment to reflect: what if we could tap into bringing ourselves out of our work routines more often?
Many of us have a very difficult time making sense of our careers and the wider job market. Often this starts with applying to hundreds of jobs, getting a handful of interviews to finally landing that role, which quickly turns out to be a dead-end.
Why are our experiences of the workplace so much worse than what we expect?
If you’ve been in an medium to large scale organisation you will have likely already come across the next grand plan for revolutionising your workplace via the brand new ‘transformation’ or ‘evolution’ programme.
So why do they fail?
I’ve spoken to many friends and contacts about starting a career in the modern world. Often it is filled with angst and disappointment. If you are currently feeling unfulfilled in your early career, here are some questions to ask yourself