Contemplating Career Directions
I have enjoyed David Seah for several years. His current posting is kind of light for him. Although he is currently working and traveling for a job in California, I know part of him is looking into new directions for his career and himself. His introspective articles are quite good at capturing the confusion of emotional change.
His article, “Contemplating Career Directions“, can help anyone faced with career change. Too many times in life we try to handle change from the inside outward. But listening and talking with other people that we admire and respect can add more solutions to the mix so that the change can be from the outside inward.
David’s process in determining his career (and self) direction was:
“From this, I could see how I could induce general principles of interest from my specific interests. For the past few years, I’ve been aware that I tend to write about these specific areas:
- Design
- Development
- Productivity
- Personal Empowerment
- Inspiration
- Sharing Personal Experiences
Repackaging these into general principles, I come up with this:
- Design Thinking and Concepts
- How People Work (from a process psychology perspective)
- Building Stuff
- Chasing Dreams and Making Them Real
- Creating Practical Process Guides with Useful Insights
It is interesting to note that my specific interests were inward facing: they are my activities and interests. The general principles, however, are outward facing: they include other people’s interests and activities. For example, I’m very interested in what other people are doing with their dreams, and I’m happiest when I’m a part of that process of making them real. With the general principles, I now have the critical balance of perspective that I was missing.”
In relating to this article of Dave’s, I have done this same process as I have changed careers eight times. For several years I was bothered by not having a single direction is life. But when I finally realized that each career of mine (teaching, selling, counseling, managing, etc.) was really about one talent. That talent is the ability to motivate others to change. So I have really done one thing all my life–motivate.
In 2005, he created the incredible Printable CEO which is a series of free forms designed to help us with organization. In his words:
“The Printable CEO™ (PCEO) was born from a desire to focus my time more productively. For me, that means things that make my freelance practice sustainable and fun. The Printable CEO name comes from the idea that a good CEO should focus primarily on those things that move the company forward; since I can’t afford to hire my own CEO, being able to print one out seemed like the next best thing! 
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Why is it so Hard to Change?
After 3 1/2 years of writing about my favorite 10 topics, I have decided to focus on one subject from now on. That subject is change. In my posts about change, I plan to use other bloggers’ articles about change.
Instead of just copying someone else’s work, I plan to do a short post about the blogger’s post and then include short excerpts from the remarks. I have always thought it is such a shame that we have no formal way to copy the remarks to a post.
Steve Olson, in a guest post at www.craigharper.com, writes about why it is so hard to change. I have read Steve for three years and he is one of the bloggers in my reader. check out his wife, Christine’s site–she sells books. Although in the past, I have rarely used links or info from other bloggers, I will be doing so now.
Steve talks about one of my first mentors to help me change, Eric Berne. This what I wrote about my experience. Eric Berne, in his book, Games People Play, teaches us how to give up our victim roles in life. When faced with change, we often play the yes, but game–yes, I want to change, but no–I can’t.
Steve lists the emotional payoff for this choice:
- Protection of the ego
- Avoiding feelings of guilt
He gives four strategies for giving up this game:
- Identify when you are playing the game. (Learn how to be your observer self.)
- Are you playing the excuse maker or solution provider.
- For the role of excuse maker–stop and seek a solution.
- For the role of solution provider, stop playing. I use the trying is lying for people who will “try” to change.
From Steve:
“To live the life you want, you must stop playing destructive games. But what makes giving up games so difficult is that we tend to surround ourselves with people who play the same games we do. Sometimes we will find, if we stop playing destructive games our current relationships evaporate because they weren’t based on true intimacy, they were based on game play. This is most obvious with alcoholics and drug addicts, but it can happen to anyone with ingrained destructive patterns, even overeating.”
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