What to do when you’re stuck in an uninspiring job
Mayumii asks: I am 23 years old and currently employed in an insurance company, but still not stable on my career. I’m still looking for a job that where I think I’ll belong. Honestly, I still don’t know what are the things that I can do. I don’t know what is my strength, I am 3 years graduated yet I am not able to help my family on their needs. Sometimes I think of myself as very useless. I decided to live alone to be independent, but I am always asking my parents for assistance because of lack of money. All I want is just to have a stable job, but I don’t know what are the things that I can do. Sometimes I can’t understand myself.
Hi Mayumii –
I know this is going to sound odd, but your situation is extremely common. In fact, I think most people who have lives where they get to choose careers (as opposed to, for example, people who grew up on farms, always knowing they’d work there, or people with governments who choose their jobs for them) don’t know by age 23 what they really want to do.
Or rather, they might know what they’d love to do, but have no way of achieving that right away. Let’s say you wanted to make a living as a filmmaker. Great! Well, you’ve finished your university studies, and you can start making short films for YouTube, or to enter into film festivals, and writing screenplays… and none of those activities brings in any money at all. Now if you keep doing it, you might find some success, and eventually become the next JJ Abrams. But right now, you’re just in the struggle.
And what if you don’t even have that clear an idea of what you want? What if you studied business, and you know you’d like to work in that area, but the place you work isn’t very inspiring, and you’re not sure what would be?
Okay. Again, this is SOOOOO normal!
And there’s one solution:
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