Your IT Career Path Is Not Leading Where You Want to Be?
Is it your story?
You entered the IT industry out of a sheer passion (like I did many years ago). The work was meaningful and challenging, and you didn’t mind long hours or working on the weekends. The projects were interesting and unique, the teams cooperative, and you were given plenty of opportunities to learn and grow.
But at some point, you started noticing that the situation had changed and you did not feel so satisfied anymore. You might notice one or more things that make you constantly stressed out, demotivated, and questioning your choices:
- No time and energy for family, friends, hobbies
- No opportunities for growth, expressing creativity and using new skills
- No recognition from the managers
- Very high pressure to keep up with the technological changes and compete with colleagues
- Feeling of not making an impact or providing bigger value
And you started thinking what should you do to work and live according to your values, purpose, goals, beliefs, motivators and personality.
Why do you need a Career Coach?
I will not lie to you – you can find your life and career path by yourself. You may analyze your situation by yourself, you may read self-help books, you may make decisions alone or asking all friends for an advice. And it may work perfectly for you.
But working with a coach speeds up the process, minimizing possibility of missing some aspects and maximizing satisfaction with the results. You get a person 100% focused on you and your topics, a person fully committed to help you find whatever you need. A coach will apply her experience proposing approaches and tools, she will assist you in your discoveries, decision-making and planning. She will be by your side with practical and emotional support on your entire path.
And what’s most important, you will be always treated with respect, you will find yourself in a safe space with full acceptance and no judgment. Your abilities will be fully trusted and you will never hear an unsolicited advice. Any feedback or observations will be offered for your consideration and never forced on you.
With a coach you will just make the discovery you are looking for faster and easier.
I was once in the same place.
After years spent in the IT industry, I realized that I no longer enjoyed my work and no longer found it meaningful. In a search for sense and satisfaction I enrolled in a 1.5-year-long Life Coaching course and decided that the only thing that could save me was a radical change in my life – and I became an IT Career Coach.
UPDATE:
I no longer coach; I returned to an IT position, but I changed corporate for a small NGO. Money is much worse, but my satisfaction is enormous! Feel free to explore the site.
