The Mid-Career GPS Podcast

11: Are You Professionally Struggling? Here’s How to Get Through It.

February 16, 2021 John Neral Season 1
The Mid-Career GPS Podcast
11: Are You Professionally Struggling? Here’s How to Get Through It.
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If you are struggling in your career, please know you are not alone. We ALL struggle at some point in our profession – and often – multiple times throughout our careers. There are many reasons and influencers that directly contribute to your stress and struggle. When you struggle, you face a pivotal moment in your career where you learn who you need to go to get rid of that struggle and be better for those experiences on the other side.

 

You don’t have to have everything figured out for your career right now at this moment. Remember when math got difficult? You learned how to deal with it. The same principles hold in your career. 

 

If your professional identity has taken a hit, listen to this episode to gain valuable tips to help you acknowledge your struggle, and create some tangible action steps to help you end the battle and move your career forward. You can decide to play this safe or go big and take your career to the next level because of the lessons you’re learning dealing with this struggle. 

 

 

 Key Topics & Time Stamps: 

·      Defining and identifying your professional struggle (1:12)

·      Do you remember when math got difficult? (6:25)

·      Addressing professional identity issues (10:23)

·      Struggling during the pandemic and what you’ve learned (14:00)

·      Play it safe or go big! (15:39)

 

 

List of Resources:

·      Seven Mid-Level Career Struggles That Every Young Professional Goes Through

https://lindseyruns.medium.com/7-mid-level-career-struggles-that-every-young-professional-goes-through-72ca21f5f52a

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Defining and identifying your professional struggle
Do you remember when math got difficult?
Addressing professional identity issues
Struggling during the pandemic and what you’ve learned
Play it safe or go big!