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Are you sitting in midlife/mid career and thinking how did I get here?
Too often we spend our entire lives going through the motions with our purpose pointed towards everyone else's needs and then we wake up one day and think, how did I get here?
As a Gen X woman who works with Gen X women, I totally get it. I was that person who woke up one day with a big career, a title I was proud of and yet I was unfulfilled.
Life is worth living. Life shouldn't be about existing.
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Carol SchuettI have been working in accounting for 30 years
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07/23/20 at 5:38PM UTC
I am 54 years old and came from a low income background. I was not able to take the college trek like so many people did until my mid twenties. I was able to get my associates degree in my mid thirties and racked up real life experience (invaluable) long before I qualified for jobs even close to what I wanted for myself. In the mean time life happened, my kids are now moving out and making career choices of their own liking and one kid is floundering trying to find himself.
I woke up one day and thought to myself I would never realize the dream job I wanted and since I had been working at a job for 8 years pulling down a paycheck and not enjoying my work I decided it was time to be selfish and look for a more fulfilling life. I still do not have my dream job and realistically my opportunity has passed, in another 2 years people will not look at me as a viable candidate due to my age, I will only have 10 years left in the work force. But, I did find a nice non-profit company that offered me a position doing tasks that I enjoy, with a nice enough pay rate, nice benefits and wonderful people. I found I was compelled to take this job, it is way off the beaten path but I am happy and the work I am doing is benefiting a group of people, no one is getting rich off my hard work. AND, I LOVE my job. It was not what I wanted for myself but I feel fulfilled and happy. I have also found some volunteer work that I am driven to participate in that gives me a whole separate dimension of fulfillment. As women many of us need to feel "needed" and we forget that we also need to feel appreciated and fulfilled. Once that feeling is realized it is all good. I am so very happy with my life now.
Jackie GhedineCoach Gen X Women|Host Modern GenX Woman podcast
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07/23/20 at 5:45PM UTC
Congratulations! How wonderful to go to work and feel like it matters. It's something you enjoy with people who bolster you up instead of tear you down. Everyone deserves this and everyone can get it, whatever IT looks like. It really is about how you step into the world! Happiness is a gift.
