Avoid The Top 11 Mistakes Made By People Who Are Not Satisfied With Their Career
Too many people are not satisfied with their careers. One of the most recent surveys finds that 54 percent of U.S. workers were not satisfied with their employment, according to The Conference Board, Job Satisfaction 2019.
Satisfaction at work depends on several different factors and, unfortunately, we can influence only a part of them.
First of All, it is hard to define a successful career. For many people, this could mean having a high-earning job or a great status in society. Others would define a successful career in terms of a good work-life balance or a low-stress work environment. For some successful career is all about recognizing own individuality and achieving their dreams.
One thing is clear, a successful career is not easy to get. Success differs for every individual and cannot be bound by figures or facts. Not to mention that a successful moment in time does not define a successful Career, maybe only a great career period.
Happiness Is Found When you Stop comparing Yourself To Other People, they say. For sure this is relevant also for Career Happiness. Long-term Career Success means hard, persistent, relevant work.
As it is said, the real world is beyond what schools teach.
There are moments in life when we just get derailed from our plan, maybe for legit reasons.
Here are the Top 11 Mistakes selected during career coaching sessions:
- Stop working at improving their skills.
- Not fully aware of their strengths and weaknesses.
- Unsure that the profession they are in is still fit for them.
- Still not understand why they were passed for a promotion — when this already happened several times.
- Forget to upgrade on people skills.
- They missed the opportunity of building a professional network.
- Have no clear career plan, or have one that does not fit anymore their new personal interests, family, or new life context.
- Fail to understand that money is an important career decision making factor.
- Career choices were not made consciously, with not enough Career exploration, without fully understanding the implications.
- Failed to overcome Self-Limiting Beliefs, for example: ”very rarely a writer can earn enough money.”
- Have limited or no interest to stay updated with the latest professional know-how or to continue learning.
It may sound simple as some of these are basic Career Development principles, right?
We should seek what brings dissatisfaction and depends on us entirely and then do our best and find ways to avoid it.
If all of the above are successfully avoided then you must be confident that, no matter what, you can still have good control over your career!
“The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.”John C Maxwell
