Welcome to Consult a Coach, our regular careers clinic for Bazaar readers. Send us your work dilemma, and we’ll ask our career agony aunt – the industry professional, executive coach and motivational speaker Jo Glynn-Smith – to answer it. Here, Jo advises a reader who is stuck in a job that they know is wrong for them.
Dear Jo, I've worked for an accountancy company for five years now. I have nice colleagues and it's a good, stable job, but as time has gone on, I've realised that this isn't for me. I studied accounting at university and thought that I wanted to do this as a career, but I'm outgoing and much more creative than I realised, and I'm yearning for something else.
I'm scared of leaving a reliable job with a solid salary to do something new, but I need to try. Where do I start? Thanks, Louise, 31 Jo says..
. Dear Louise, Coaching clients as they navigate a career change is something of a speciality of mine, so this question is right up my street. It’s great that you have recognised that you may not be on the right path in terms of job satisfaction and fulfilment; five years into a career is enough time to have had a good run, but not too late to redirect, everything considered.
The situation that you describe isn’t untypical for many creatively minded people. Often, we don’t realise our creative preferences until much later into adulthood, as being creative can manifest itself in so many ways. So that leads us to your question: should you or shouldn’t yo.
