Breaking Up With Your Job

Jobs are a lot like relationships, sometimes unfortunately they run their course and you need to move on. Or they are not quite what you expected. Sometimes you will grow out of them. As you advance in your career chances are you will go through many phases of your work life. If you have not started your own business yet and are working for an employer, you may need to examine how the job is working for you. Many people dream of starting their own empire, but they just don’t have the time because they work so many hours per week. They are not entirely happy with their job, but the pay is good and so are the benefits. Benefits are a pivotal part usually, some have spent decades in a job that they are not crazy about just to have benefits.

People usually move on from their job as a last resort, when it is absolutely necessary and they just can’t take it anymore. Unfortunately this is often proceeded by years of discomfort, being at a job they are not crazy about while yearning to do something different. I was a creative director for years in broadcast television and new media, and taking the chance to start my own company was a huge decision I did not take lightly. Like many of you I had a yearning to do my own thing, break out on my own, focus daily on my own empire rather than someone else’s. I also realized that directions and income are typically fixed in a standard job. Working for companies I had only so many ways I could move to advance in new and different directions. Same with income, it was more fixed with limits. Running my own company I can now explore new avenues of services fairly easily. And income is unlimited, it really depends how hard I want to work.

The key is to really start to look at where you are now and where you want to be. We’ll discuss this more in the future here, how to actually make the move, but the first step is to embrace some of the discomfort you may have under the surface. The reality that it may be time for you to move on.

Really start to envision what you would rather be doing, then take steps in that direction.

What is the next step for you? When is the next step for you?

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