Career Changes (or how I left corporate and gained my sanity)

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The Decision

Are you ready to leave your job but don’t really know what your next step is once you do?

There was a time when I could not see how I was ever going to leave the secure madness of my corporate career and become self employed. I say secure madness because I was in a highly stressed environment and it was challenging working together effectively. Every day there seemed to be some major issue or conflict.

I was making a very good salary and I was worried that everyone would say I was crazy, too old or the economy did not support a big move.

Of course, while I pretended these were everyone else’s worries, they were actually my own. I was afraid.  I felt like the person at a bad party who didn’t want to get caught leaving as soon as the host turned their back.

It wasn’t until my doctor diagnosed what I thought were intense hunger pains as anxiety attacks that I knew something had to change. I made up my mind to address my fears. I set up a plan to leave and gave myself a deadline.  But I still had to decide what I wanted to do.

My first step was to take an honest look at my abilities, skills and desires. It was the first time in years that I made an honest assessment of my skill set and what I enjoyed.

Next, I decided I needed to make career change my primary priority for the next six months. I cleared my calendar. I didn’t take on any big projects. No major traveling or vacations. All my energy was geared towards my transition out of corporate and into my idea career as a Life Coach.

Has it been a perfect ride? Of course not. But what I can say is that I’m much happier than I can recall in years and I am doing something I love.