Unfulfilled Professional Potential

When i entered the frustrating fifteen years of my career I had no idea of the benefits. The years filled with what I felt were failures. The years where I quit roles that didn’t quite fit, keeping moving. The years where I felt my confidence being corroded in the corporate world as I sought over and over the role or organisation where I could feel satisfaction. This too fuels my coaching practice now, because now I know that with the right support, a career path does not have to be so painful. These people and places, these bruising or unsatisfying experiences were a process of elimination. A process where I was choosing what I did and did not want. Unbeknownst to me, this was the gaining of the skills I needed to take forward to my future. This was the process of my firmly jettisoning the working cultures and protocols that suffocated. My one wish was that there had been a way of knowing this bruising bit of the journey was productive. I needed something to help me realise during that time, just how valuable this process was. As someone who was told I ‘could do anything’, but, having no idea what that ‘thing’ was. I felt deeply distressed and inadequate as I saw my peers gain status and good wages whilst I felt I ‘wasted’ chances that came my way. I tried them and they weren’t my thing. How could I find my thing? I despaired. Little did I know I was working my way towards my real professional purpose.
Have you found your professional purpose yet? And tell me how you did it? 
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