Career Coaching: I’ve lost faith …
Career Coaching: I’ve lost faith …
How can I stay at work when I no longer believe in what we are doing?
The long answer is that You DON’T stay in a job that you no longer have faith in – This kind of values conflict, will make you unhappy in the short term and possibly unwell in the long run. However, NEITHER do you need to LEAVE immediately. There is a place between the two extremes: This is a place of ‘sitting with it’ and being strategic.
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How? You stay in situ until you have designed your Exit Strategy — And, ONLY then do you make any move.
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This way you keep the income to support yourself and your family. You keep the roof over your head. You keep the stability so we can do deep dive into designing what’s next for your professional world.
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Career Coaching: I’ve lost faith …
This internal choice also makes a profound difference. Why – after all, there IS nothing to see. And, What’s happening on the inside are these two things:
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Firstly, you know WHY you are staying, it’s not for ‘them’. You are staying entirely to meet YOUR NEEDS. This means you’re taking your power back
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Secondly, it means that you have made a pivot away from your existing professional role simply by choosing to navigate it this way. Then, the everyday slights, the resentments, the bitterness, they have far less hold over you because you know this is not forever and you are working towards a new route
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This is why you can stay – because you have chosen to do so in service of your next professional iteration.