Alaina Love opines on a 39-year-old senior accountant in a leadership position for a mid-sized firm, Josh enjoys a loyal client base and a lucrative income. He is lucky to like his co-workers and get along well with the company CEO. Just last year, he built a new house in a great neighborhood, and is proud to be able to take his family on an annual vacation to a white-sand Caribbean beach. By all outward appearances, Josh has made it.
He knows that he should feel grateful that he have been able to parlay my college degrees into a fruitful career, but more and more, he just feels lost, Josh shared. It is like I am living someone else life. And the scary thing is that I have felt this way off and on for the last 7 years, but this time it is different. It feels like I should not ignore it.
Josh story is all too common. As Alaina works with leaders and teams in various industries, the theme of career restlessness is echoed in the hallways and corner offices of companies across the globe. She finds that, as individuals mature and become more personally and professionally self-actualized, the ache for deeper meaning in work and life only increases. So how do so many of us end up here, even after carefully executing a well-laid-out plan for a successful career. What is that we miss along the way?
Aliana research suggests that the process begins early, and is often influenced by external and internal expectations, limitations in our systems of education, and other eroding factors that can set us off on a 20-year detour to career happiness. And, it is a detour that is often difficult to reroute.
Of the factors that Aliana has seen that land people in the wrong job, these are the 10 most common...Read on...
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