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Satisfying work involves challenge

Occasionally you get the chance to do something you’ve not done before and you get a final result that pleases you and your customer. That’s when work is really satisfying. Not all jobs provide challenging opportunities, but it’s possible to … Continue reading

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A new door opens…if you let it

When your job or relationship ends, this forces open a door to other opportunities. It may seem like your world is ending, but it is simply the end of one chapter and the beginning of another.

I am NOT saying that the past is not important, or not painful, or any of those other things. This is what is important:

We need to learn from the past, not live in it.

I can hear some people now. "What does he mean, only the end of a chapter? This job, this person has been my whole life!"

I am not making less of your work, or of your relationship, at all. When change is forced on you, it can create a terrible loss and it is appropriate to grieve about it. But you do no credit to the memory of the person you loved or the great job you did, if you shut down and refuse to go on.

You can honor the past by the way you face the future. The love you felt for one who is gone is not lessened if you brighten the lives of deserving others by giving them freely of your affection, admiration and love in order to create a new life for yourself and others. Shutting yourself off from life helps no one, least of all yourself.

In the same way, losing a well-deserved position, for which you have struggled mightily, is one of the unkindest blows that can occur. When it occurs going into the holiday season, it seems like the cruelest betrayal that could happen.

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Your career curve – part 4

Do you feel powerless?

This is not an idle question. Your career depends on how you answer it and you must be able to answer it accurately.

Feeling powerless can happen at any point in your career curve, and it is essential to your continuing sanity that you learn to recognize what is going on.

If you are doing a creditable job and applying yourself to making your employer succesful, this can be one of the most important indicators that you are seriously at risk.

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Your career curve – part 3

Lets talk about that part of the career curve that makes you lie awake at night and sweat. It is the point where your career progress falters.

You will know when that happens, because your comments in meetings start being politely ignored. If you persist in being heard, you will be removed from the meeting distribution list and given another assignment. People start avoiding you and no one will go to lunch with you any more.

You are being perceived as a liability by your coworkers. Whatever you have, they don’t want to be contaminated by it. You walk around with a hunted look, trying to force a confident smile. It is a truly awful time for you, and there is only one way to handle it.

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