For months now I’ve known that my role was not going to be secure after 31st of March. And though the first thing I thought about was not quitting, for the sake of my father’s health and wanting to be of some use and providing financial support, if ever he was to be found on his last day. I knew that at some point I’d have to fit in personal business in order to live. Inevitably one of those situations was going to put me out of a job either way. So what could happen to me if I didn’t have a job? For a minute it all came falling down on me, way too quickly and blood was rushing through my head as though I was running late for work.
I thought there must be hundreds of people with intriguing dilemmas at work, who refuse to give up but don’t know where to start. Or haven’t been ready or willing to face the issue that they only have a month or two left of a job. Plus as a Career Coach I’m always finding solutions for other people’s dilemmas. I’m bound to find one for me. Even if, I have to analyse every ounce of myself and take my own advice.
So I started thinking of what I would do when this job finishes. With the knowledge that the new government will also affect me finding appropriate roles in my industry. Career Coaching-Career Advice.
So at the end of January when my Manager confirmed the end of my role, I started putting all this thinking into action.
Now the last few weeks have been mind boggling. I’ve gone from dabbling with thoughts in my mind, to breaking my ideas into small chunks and just playing with it. Cause let’s face it there is only one way to eat an elephant really; one chunk at a time. As I was reviewing myself I decided a bit of brainstorming would help, just to see how well I’m doing.
So this is the steps I ’ve decided to take:
1st I thought to myself, I love what I do but I can’t work in a non-creative and conforming
Environment, it sucks out my energy and makes me stagnant eventually.
I’m at my best when I am-
- Able to bring the best out in people
- Creating links and liaising with people
- Inspiring
- Starting new projects
- Writing
- Speaking –facilitating and training
- One to one contact with clients
- Make use of my cultural upbringing and language skills
- Styling and the world of Fashion
But for some reason I really don’t know how I could bring all these talents and ideas together?
2nd Knowing that my future job is not straight forward, I may probably need some more time to figure it out once this job finishes.
3rd I could possibly do a number of things use some of these ideas to run a pilot or volunteer somewhere where I could freely use my talent, start an internship, learn how to freelance consistently. Use the experiences or just see where that would lead to.
4th During my time out I could really do with completing my PTTLS course- A teacher training course.
5th Accepting the fact that this may take an extra 3 months from the end of contract period. In hindsight it could take 6 months to a year which is tough to digest but will give me focus to put those ideas into practice
6th Also look into higher qualification such as CBT- Cognitive behaviour therapy and Solution Focused Therapy.
7th I will not jump back into any job out of desperation unless it’s in line with my idea project.
8th I will truly focus on what I’m good, the environment in which I work and rather than what I’m not good at.
9th seek people who might help me in the areas where I struggle the most. People interested in my play project or people that can hook me up with other people.
10th Find other writers and write a blog – which I am doing right now.
11th Update and maintain this blog regularly at least once- a week and write three times a week or as often as I possibly can.
12th Doing at least 3 new activities a week to discover new opportunities
13th I’m still toying with the idea of an Open University degree in psychology- needs further investigation.
I think these are things which I need to implement straight away and I’ve started connecting with various people already who might be able to help and hold me accountable. This is not a bulletproof plan however as I don’t believe in bullet-proofness. It’s kind of a set up to fail really . I guess the good thing would be to give myself the chance to change this plan on multiple occasion or twick it so to speak.
So I guess the idea continues to grow
