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I am so tired and drained from pursuing a career. I am a full-fledged career woman with a satisfactory marketing job. I have challenged myself many times in the corporate world. I now feel that I have missed so many precious and enjoyable moments in my life, because work became before everything and how do I keep climbing the corporate ladder when I feel stuck and in the same old routine. I need a break!
hi there, it is clear that not only do you see the problem but you know the solution. The question is what are you going to do about it? Take on new challenges( Kokoda for a start) and follow your employment dreams. I did and I am so glad that I took the chance of a new career. After a long time as a high school teacher I left and became an ambulance paramedic. Every day I work I am so happy to pull on the navy blue uniform. You describe your job as satisfactory and that in itself says a lot. Take the chance and break free, it is so invigorating. If by chance it does not work out the first time , it is always better to be known as a "has been" rather than a "never wazza".
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PeteArmando, I can relate to this as I too spent all my working life in an office, getting up every morning to think what am I going to wear to work today, high heel shoes the works. After leaving Deloitte's following nine years of dedicated service working all kinds of hours to meet deadlines, I left to pursue this trekking business.
Now, I wear casual clothes day in day out and work for myself. The main thing I miss is the people I used to work with and the interaction, however on the plus side, I can choose what time I come and go and no longer have to live by my watch except the days when I have to pick trekkers up to go on the track.
When I handed in my resignation, the Managing Partner commented … you are leaving Deloitte to run trekking tours!!! So leave I did and here I am a few years later enjoying my career change, meeting heaps of new people every week and enjoying myself 4 wheel driving and heaps of other things completely different to anything I have done before. I think the big thing is the risk factor and we sometimes think many times over before taking action.
I know what its like, I owned a small hydraulic engineering company in Sydney.
After 13 years I'd had enough and one day just snapped. I was never at home, always at work. I sold up and now I drive a garbage truck around the shopping centres.
I get 4 weeks payed holiday plus 12 days payed flexidays off every year. I can get as much overtime as I like and I just love it.I dress lake a dag and no one seems to care, plus Im home everynight for dinner.
I have to get up at 3-30am, but its a small price to pay.have a coffee guys….
this is interesting, thanks for sharing
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