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Unhappy At Work? 5 Powerful Techniques To Help You Feel Better, Quickly
You’re so done with work that feels like a terrible fit. You know you need a change. But how do you survive in the meantime in a role you can’t leave (yet)?
Why It’s OK If Your Career Change Feels Impossible
When your career change feels impossible, it’s easy to give up. But what if feeling this way ISN’T a problem? What if this is EXACTLY where you need to be?
How To Start A Career Change: 5 Tough Truths
Feeling lost about how to start a career change? Here’s why what you know about ‘careers’ won’t help you, and how to begin the right way.
The Biggest Mistake You’re Making With Your Career Change Ideas (And What To Do Instead)
Do all your career change ideas feel like big SUCKY dead ends? Could you be making this BIG mistake in how you’re working with the ideas you have?
What To Do When You F****** Hate Your Job
Every Monday it’s the same. You open your eyes. Your heart sinks. Your stomach drops as you stare down the barrel of another week in a job you hate.
The Career Change Advice I Wish I’d Been Given
7 years ago my career finally broke me. I often think about how I might have got unstuck and moving much faster in my shift if I'd known then what I've learned about career change since. So, if you're feeling stuck too, I hope these, my ten top pieces of career change...
Why Starting Career Change In Lockdown Is The Perfect Time
"I'm not at the office. And to be honest I'm f****** LOVING it. I don't want to go back, but is it really possible to make a career change in lockdown?" “I’ve finally got some time to think about what I really want to do. But I don’t have any ideas, or any clue where...
Why You Can’t Change Career In A Crisis (And What To Do Instead)
I’m struggling to know what to say to you. It seems like the COVID-19 crisis has sent the world mad. And as I write this, I’m hoping fervently that you, Avenger, are in good health, and managing the fall out of this crisis in a way that’s working for you. In the face...
Is Your Career In Crisis Thanks To COVID-19? Need Help, Now?
Is your career thoroughly screwed thanks to coronavirus? Are you feeling lost, anxious, angry, and unsure about your next move workwise? Do you need career help, fast, because of the impact of COVID-19? I see you. And I can help. I’m an experienced, ICF-accredited...
How To Recognise The Career Change Ideas Your Body’s Already Giving You (Even If Your Brain Has No Idea What It’s Doing)
My alarm clock woke me rudely. And I greeted my Monday with the same sinking, plummeting feeling that seemed to herald the beginning of every day I went to the office. I knew I hated my job. But I didn't have a single career change idea that felt viable. Not one....
Feel Like A Fake At Work? Here’s Why It Hurts (And How To Feel Better)
My gut was screaming, "This isn't me!" And yet every day I put on a mask – the face of someone who wanted to be there. I felt like a fake at work, and it sucked. We’ve all been there. That awesome outfit in the trendy shop that you just know is going to look and feel...
Why Cute, Furry Career Change Habits Make WAY Better Sidekicks Than Big Hairy Goals
The impossibility of making a career change felt like an itchy, uncomfortable clawing in my stomach. How the actual f*** was I going to make it happen? I knew I needed to change career. If the crying in toilets hadn’t given me a clue, perhaps the mind-numbing boredom...
Why Sunday Dread Is Not OK (And What To Do About It)
Oh God. The familiar Sunday dread. Another week in my I-want-to-claw-my-eyes-out-rather-than-be-here job was stretching out interminably ahead of me.