Career Tips: #2 Don’t start with the job search. Start with yourself.
Just as you should avoid the temptation to begin your job search by dusting off your resume,–you should also pause to consider what you want from work. You may have become so busy with your career that you have forgotten to ask yourself this important question. Or maybe you have become so accustomed to working in a job that you do not like that you now believe that you really cannot expect find happiness from your work.
This assignment does not have to take a weekend, nor does it have to be an addition to an already full “to do list”. Have fun with it! For example, in the next meeting you attend where you can doodle or Blackberry or whatever you do when you are sitting in a meeting and bored out of your mind. You know what I am talking about. Hey, the meeting is a drag, so why not do something that is far more interesting and just might be the beginning…of more interesting work.
Your coworkers will think you are a diligent note taker as you make a list of those things that you like about the work you do and where you are doing it. They do not need to know that you are also making a list of those things that you do not like about the work you do and where you are doing it…and creating a third list of those things that you really, really wish were part of your work.
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