Hi crew, long time lurker here finally taking the plunge as I desperately need some advice.
The fact of the matter is that I am fed up with IT - I've spent the last couple of years having 3 months here 3 months there and taking more steps back than I have forwards. Work has been incredibly dull and boring too which just saps motivation even further. Don't get me wrong, I used to enjoy software development but over the past couple of years I feel like a hamster in its wheel.
So, I've been thinking about doing something else. I'm in my mid 40s so it's too late to have a proper career change per se but I would love to run a business doing something that I enjoy; something involving food & drink or property renovation. Problem is, I'm an awful dreamer & I have these pipe dreams and they never become reality. I could put a big plan together tomorrow for the next few years but at the back of my mind I know that after a few months it'd fizzle out & I'd be back in the same old rut again. The problem is all mine, I know - I'm quite disorganised, have a poor attention span and am easily distracted from the job in hand.
So my question is, ahve any of you on here used a life coach or something of that nature? I'm not talking a shrink here (though some may say that would be more appropriate!) but somebody who could give me advice and support in getting my life turned around. I've looked on the web and TBH some of it smacks of trendy American psycho quackery - the sort of thing that I normally run a mile from. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
The fact of the matter is that I am fed up with IT - I've spent the last couple of years having 3 months here 3 months there and taking more steps back than I have forwards. Work has been incredibly dull and boring too which just saps motivation even further. Don't get me wrong, I used to enjoy software development but over the past couple of years I feel like a hamster in its wheel.
So, I've been thinking about doing something else. I'm in my mid 40s so it's too late to have a proper career change per se but I would love to run a business doing something that I enjoy; something involving food & drink or property renovation. Problem is, I'm an awful dreamer & I have these pipe dreams and they never become reality. I could put a big plan together tomorrow for the next few years but at the back of my mind I know that after a few months it'd fizzle out & I'd be back in the same old rut again. The problem is all mine, I know - I'm quite disorganised, have a poor attention span and am easily distracted from the job in hand.
So my question is, ahve any of you on here used a life coach or something of that nature? I'm not talking a shrink here (though some may say that would be more appropriate!) but somebody who could give me advice and support in getting my life turned around. I've looked on the web and TBH some of it smacks of trendy American psycho quackery - the sort of thing that I normally run a mile from. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
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