Scared of Change?
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Are you sacred of change? Are you stuck in a dead end job with little or no prospects of promotion or even a pleasant work environment? Have you lost all your confidence and feel that dreadful though your current position is, it is certainly better than taking positive steps to getting a new job?
Well, if you are then you need to think very carefully about just what is scaring you? Is it rejection or the fear of rejection? Do you feel worried that a new job will be as bad as this one? Or are you scared that you may actually realise your true potential? After all, if you stay in a dead end job, then you could have been anything, if only you had moved. You could have been a brain surgeon, rocket scientist or celebrity chef, but you just never got round to moving on.
But you could move jobs and find out that you will never be a brain surgeon or rocket scientist and that the world will never rock to the rhythm that you create. Yet on the other hand, you could try a new job and find that you enjoy it, that you get on with your colleagues and you no longer wish to be a brain surgeon or whatever. You may simply find that you are contented with your life and you have achieved a really good balance between work and home.
And isn’t it better to have tried something new rather than just stay stuck where you are? After all isn’t that part of the human condition? We need to adapt and to change or else humankind would still be living in caves, hunting daily for food.
Even if you apply for something and don’t get it, you can still learn from that experience and go on to get another, better opening, so there is nothing to be lost from trying to secure a new position. You may even enjoy the new challenge!
So don’t give up hope of getting something better. If you don’t feel that you have the confidence to radically alter your career just at the moment, then why not sign up with a recruitment agency, so that they can match your skills with available positions, thereby giving you that little extra boost of confidence. Then just enjoy the process of change, rather than being scared by it!
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