Returning home from travelling to no money, no job and living back at my parents, made me feel rather down in the dumps. The thought of returning to the same old job, doing the same old day-to-day tasks made me feel even worse! Perhaps I shouldn’t have felt like this considering I had seen how people live in the slums of Mumbai and the devastation caused to the landmine victims in Cambodia – but I just couldn’t help it.
So I thought to myself, rather than feeling low and then feeling guilty about feeling low, I needed to do something about it. I decided the only way out was to try something new and take a few risks. So I got myself a new job doing something completely different.
I have always worked for big corporate companies and felt fairly insignificant in the grand scheme of things. So I now work for a small business and know that my work really does make a difference. I also moved away from never speaking to a soul at work (analysts live quiet work lives) to having lengthy conversations and building relationships with our clients (in a professional way!). The main risk of all though was committing to spending an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening on the M1 – I hate driving.
The rewards for making these changes and taking these risks have been amazing, I exercise my brain, get great job satisfaction and actually enjoy my working life. I highly recommend it.
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