Time to Re-evaluate?

You know how it is, you start your first job that is in some way near to what you actually want to do. You make plans to gain experience to make the transition to your “perfect” job easier.

Years later you find yourself in a job that is so far away from what you wanted, but you’ve got the money and the job title and, well, this is what you “do”.

But now, if things are unsteady in your company or industry, or things have already fallen apart, or if you are finally ready to give into those feelings that this is just not right for you – maybe it is time to re-evaluate.

I clearly remember back when I was just getting exposed to the internet, and Bulletin Boards before them, I wanted to learn HTML in order to make pages on the net for my own magazine.

I had a passion for magazines as a kid, I’d buy all of the ones related to my ZX Spectrum computer and pore over them in ridiculous detail, reading each article and advert, whether I had an interest in MIDI music or Desk-Top Publishing or not.

So years later when I could see the opportunity for my own magazine on-line I began to learn how to do it. Before I could begin anything I got a job using my new skills. Then I got the next job centered around that, and then I moved to a role using ASP, and so on and so on. Was this really what I wanted? My attempts to keep my hand in with some freelance journalism suggested otherwise, but Web Development became my job, my career and my secure cash-flow.

But of course it’s not secure. And here I am again cast-adrift. And I have had time to re-evaluate.

Maybe it’s your time to re-visit your passion and see if you can make it a career.