Midlife Career Change

If you have noticed your inner being screaming at you about wanting to change careers, not just your job, Congratulations!

We humans have wonderful directional emotions that can help us reap fantastic rewards. We just have to learn to listen to those emotions. When your emotions speak to you that loudly, listen to hear clearly what emotional needs are surfacing. You gain great awareness and insight of yourself when you pay attention to what your emotions are saying.

Many midlifers and baby boomers are experiencing yearnings about career changes or have already made the decision to make a career change. There is a reason this time of life is called mid-life. You are half way there, you have worked so hard and you realize you want to capitalize on the lessons learned in the first half of your life to make the second half, happier and more fulfilling.

Career burnout, job dissatisfaction, yearning to make career changes are all indications of your inner being screaming at you that you desire something more congruent with who you have become. You may have decided to make that career change, taken all the assessments available to tell you which direction you should go in, yet you feel hesitant. Something is missing.

The tug of war between job security of your current situation and income uncertainty of a new career can unearth many fears and unpleasant feeling emotions. Perfect! Your emotions serve as a phenomenal guidance system to warn you of potential perils ahead. Planning, creative brainstorming, networking, confidence and determination are all within you to rise up to meet those fears and bypass inertia that can cripple you from making the changes your heart yearns for.

In addition, at midlife it may seem harder to make a career change because you have accumulated responsibilities, mortgages, children, and you have probably experiences a taste of success. Many times, you have also fulfilled that goal that our parents gave us about having a good job.

By asking these questions and taking the time to listen to your inner being’s response, you are creating space in your psyche for the answers to take shape and form and communicate to you clearly what your next step should be.

Is your dissatisfaction an indication that your values are not aligned with your actions?

Do you invest your non-working time in activities that actually feel rewarding?

Are you constantly exhausted, mentally and physically?

Do you feel as if you are a failure although you know that you have achieved success by the standards of others?