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I get to work on my blog at work today, because I don’t have anything useful to do. I just finished one of my quarterly projects for one of my clients. Their incompetence amazes me, and I’m always left feeling very irate about the whole thing. Now that I’m all caught up on projects, I am supposed to do “Professional Reading,” which is the biggest joke of a time code at our office. It basically means, I didn’t do anything useful, but I don’t want to have to make up a description for the miscellaneous code, so I’ll lie. It’s a great time to keep up on Facebook, read blogs, and do some personal inventorying. The last thing I’m going to do is read over accounting literature. That would be torture.
So yesterday I pulled up an interest survey that I had taken back in December when I was feeling the need to get out of accounting, but wasn’t sure which direction to go in. (I find that the test I took at livecareer.com was very informative and accurately reflected my interests, and put things into words in a way that helped me better understand myself.) Looking at the results again, I’m sure that some interests may have shifted, but for the most part, it remains fairly accurate. Accounting, my chosen profession, consistently ranked near the bottom, whereas research-related fields like social science and the natural sciences ranked towards the top.
I’m at a point now, where I don’t think I can handle another tax season. It’s too much stress to manage, doing a job I don’t enjoy.
The job search isn’t going well (or really at all anymore). Finding another accounting job doesn’t appeal to me, even if I wasn’t doing what I’m doing now.
So what do you do when you find yourself in this position? Or is this something that most people don’t experience?
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09.02.10
At this point I think the best question to ask yourself is: What's holding you back? Is it the fear of the unknown? Loyalty to your current employer? Figuring out what's keeping you from getting out of a situation that's making you unhappy is the first step I think.
So what is holding you back?
09.02.10
That's a tough one. If you have the funds, go work at an elephant orphanage in East Africa for awhile. Ok, maybe not that exactly (but I don't know, it's kind of my dream. I'm filing it away for a mid-life crisis). But do something out of the box. While you're doing your Professional Reading, look for opportunities that you've never thought of before. I know the Peace Corps is inundated right now with the state of the economy, but something along those lines might be exciting.
Anyway, good luck. And remember, there are plenty of orphaned elephants looking for a father figure (well, someone to clean up their poop at least).
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