Tired of Your Career? Don’t Miss These 6 Crucial Steps To Moving Out Of That Job You Hate

Sometimes you are met with the reality that you are stuck in a career...and headed nowhere fast. Here's what you need to do the moment you realize that you have become tired of your career.

1. Begin by making a conscience effort to separate your disdain for the job (and the people and the policies) from those small tasks in the job that bring you at least a little joy.

2. Don't let the fact that you are tired of your career get you sidetracked - promise yourself that you will separate the people from the issues.

* To make this a little more doable, pretend to watch yourself from an outsider's perspective.

* Pretend like you are the star of a new movie...and in that movie you watch how your current career unfolded...scene by scene.

3. Look closely at all of the tasks involved in doing your job. Make sure you observe everything - from the mundane to the exciting.

* Take an assessment for everything you do in your job.

* It doesn't matter whether it's a task that you do everyday or one that you do once every two years...place it on the list.

* Perhaps you interact with customers, or you interact with a team...list out all of the various things that you do or have done in your job

4. Now...go down your list and give each job task a score between -3 and 3 based on how much you liked (or disliked) that particular task.

* Use a "-3" for those tasks that you hated with passion.

* Use a "%2B3" for those tasks that made you feel like "yeah...THIS is what I was made to do.)

* Use any number in-between -3 and %2B3 to score the rest.

5. Take a look at those task that scored anywhere from -3 to 0.

* Those are the tasks that you can do without in your next career.

* Those are the tasks that are driving you bananas and making you want to tear your hair out.

6. Now take a close look at those tasks that were scored %2B1 and above.

* They will give you an indication of the types of new career move that might fit your more closely.

* These are the tasks that you need to try to match to your new job.

* These are the tasks that you organize your resume around in an effort to attract a new job.

Sometimes when you are tired of your career, you get locked into looking at everything that you don't like about it.

You find yourself not liking the people, or the policy or even the job task itself...but when it comes down to it, the job that you are in had to have something about it that attracted you in the first place.

Give yourself a little credit.

* Even though you're tired of your career because it involves a lot of stuff that you DON'T like...there has to be something about it that you DO like.

* Force yourself to look at your career to find those things that you like will help you figure out your next step.

* Your challenge is to identify that something that attracted you to your job.

When you become tired of your career...don't make the mistake of leaping BEFORE you give yourself a chance to do a thorough what-I-want-from-my-next-career assessment.

* Recognize the signs of career burnout...and then create a plan of action that will move you forward.

* Though you are tired of your career - and you know what you DON'T want...it's just that you're not quite sure of what you DO want.

*The next step of career success requires proactive planning and action from you.

* Then, Review The 10 Biggest Career Change Mistakes And What You Should Do To Avoid Them.

Whatever you do, don't stay stuck in a career that you hate. Protect yourself by figuring out what it is that you want from your next career.

You deserve to be in a career that makes your heart go wild!

* Signed: Latarsha Lytle, MBA your career positioning advocate...and your greatest fan.

Latarsha Lytle is a motivational business and career consultant who works with women who are looking to do more with their lives to find flexible and rewarding careers and businesses that kindles with their passion and fits into the context of their life.

She works with many women to wrap their SweetSpot, THAT thing that they were made to do, into a career or business that fits their life, stirs their passion, earns them money AND lets them leave their mark.

For more information on positioning yourself for career success, go to http://www.career-change-positioning.com

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