8 Signs: You Need A Career Change!

On average, the working population across the world spends 1/3rd of their day at work, i.e., 8 hours per day. Now multiply it with five days/week, 30 days per month, 260 days (without weekends) per year. That’s a lot of time spent at the workplace in your lifetime.

But does your current job even deserve to give this much priority in your life? Are you lost in thoughts? Then this might help you in finding out whether you are living to your full potential or burning your life unconsciously? 1. You are never really looking forward to your mornings on a working day: It's essential to check your excitement levels before starting your work. Do you wake up with a grinning face to log in to your work?

That's a sign you have been ignoring all these days. Have you ever felt gloomy about a road trip? Or a vacation? or meeting your best friend? I guess your answer is no. Now, I don't want to misguide you that every day at work is expected to be exciting.

But you should enjoy at least some part of your work that motivates and excites you.

2. You don't feel like taking ownership of the tasks assigned to you: Every task assigned to you takes multiple revisions and a significant amount of your time before the final delivery. You don't feel the need for perfectionism in reviewing your work. And this comes with demotivation or a lack of interest in the work you do.

3. You feel guilty about taking a salary or other benefits: Often you think that you are overpaid (if you are humble). You know that you are not using your full potential at work and don't deserve the money you get paid for your work.

4. Lack of interest to enhance your skills or in a promotion: You know that a particular course would be an excellent boost for your career if you complete it. But you push it to the backlog list of things to do after N-number of years. Deep down, you know that you are never going to do it!

5. You are not enthusiastic about discussing new projects at all: There is this new project your company bagged from a reputed client. Everyone in your team is going lunatic about how it can become a golden feather to their career graph.

But you, on the contrary, have zero interest in that invaluable opportunity which clearly shows you don't visualize your growth in that career.

6. You try to search for complexities in simple tasks: You are assigned a task that hardly should take 1-2 days. Due to lack of focus, you drag it to 6 days, and you keep searching for things to talk about in the follow-up meetings.

Because you want to show your manager that you encountered some complex issues and couldn't meet the deadlines, you come up with all such unnecessary stories to distract him from the reality that you lost your focus at work.

The bitter truth is that you feel guilty after doing so, but if you are a person with good ethics, you will try to think about it and take some action. Otherwise, you would brush it aside.

7. Finishing a complex or big project doesn't make you feel elated: We as humans search for activities that bring an adrenaline rush. You were assigned a task that involved a lot of brainstorming, weeks of sleepless nights, stressful days. You completed the project and delivered it on time with flying colors.

Your team and manager are in awe of you, but on the other hand, you don't feel even a pinhead level of satisfaction or happiness. You don't even want to discuss this as an achievement with your close ones. Now, this sounds not right at all.

8. You have an ideal job that doesn't look bright to you at all: You kept changing jobs in your initial years and gained good experience. You are currently with a great company where you like every single aspect. It has fantastic work culture, a manager with great ethics and compassion, a team with a good spirit and supportive nature, and a scope to learn and grow in your domain.

The first six months seem to have passed without any issues. Slowly, you start to realize you are going back to that gloomy feeling you knew from your previous jobs. You get demotivated and distracted at work most of the time.

You spend a lot of working hours doing something completely irrelevant to your work. Surprisingly, you don't feel guilty about it. Instead, you think that your day is productive but doing something else that makes you happy.

If you face any of these symptoms, you clearly need a job/career change. Now is the time to think of the alternative. What are some things you enjoy doing and feel satisfied with if you do them?

Invest your time in thinking about it and understanding how you can monetize this skill to make a living out of it. It will not be easy, but it's worth trying because that will help you quit the current job you hate.

Life is not what happens as a routine, and life is something one must build with one brick at a time doing what makes one come alive.