Changing jobs, like the first year of college?

More than half of the people change jobs because they want a job that better fits their values, personally more fulfilling, allowing more continuous learning and with a more socially engaged organization.

At least for me it’s like that.

This week is my last week at work, Friday will be my last day, Friday early afternoon will probably be over. I mean anyway here at M…….. no one ever worked Friday late afternoon. Everyone had the ‘kid excuse’ or ‘baby excuse’.

What I thought would make me productive at work was hard work and so I did a bunch of trainings the second year when I started losing my fulfillment. It kept me going for another year. I was already doing a lot of sports. I changed a bit the sports I was doing and started doing even more thinking that it would keep me going and it did. Only for a while. So online trainings, exercise, healthy eating, sleep, time off, I tried all of that but I came to a point where I was 100% convinced I needed to change my job and I needed the change it now, today, next day, next week. Soon.

As every other job application luck found me I signed my second real contract and I resigned from my company. By the way the CEO never said a word or a goodbye or an exit thingy.

It felt like graduation once again. I felt just like that time when one period of my life was over and a new era was about to start. I had that kind of butterflies in me.

It also reminded me that feeling of desperation to grow up. Willing to be able to make your own choices, live your own life, dedicating hours upon hours proving yourself worthy of being given the label of adult. Graduation is like the first authenticated foray into adulthood. And you feel soooooo ready because you tried all kind of ways to pass this time at your boring job so you are ready to change but trepidation is not something you can’t ignore.

So my goal is to go back to those high school years and start working at 8am in the morning because I am motivated and I have some commuting to do so I got to wake up early.

My point with all the text below, it takes courage to change your job. Just like it takes courage to finish high school and start college. It can be so many things but basically finishing something where you have been feeling comfortable for a very long time and starting something completely new, which fears you but don’t. Because the opposite of fear is courage!