…. But it can also mean that our career is not in sync with our natural talents and deep heart desires.
This is my story from twenty years ago. I had to go back to work after maternity break and discovered that returning to law practice filled me with dread.
I was not bad. But never as good as the best ones, those who are always keen to talk about work after work. But how to say you are not happy in a “dream career”?! It took moving to UK and having a break to get courage to say that out loud. Because, I understood, it my career was somebody else’s dream.
And when I started psychotherapy training, I saw what it means to enjoy one’s job: no time was a bad time to talk about clients, no client was too difficult. I had more confidence in my ability as a therapist trainee than I had as a fully qualified barrister. I loved to hear people’s stories, and now there was no dry legal task looming in the end of the meeting. I can’t stress enough how exhilarating and life changing my ‘new’ career has been for the past twenty years.
Our intellect is an efficient servant that will keep as alive. But when heart and soul are involved in career choices, we may become way more than just that.
